Internet Explorer backup Option missing.

[AlexB]

In the old XP, before they upgraded Internet Explorer to version 6, I think
you could click on a link somewhere in the window and get a new webpage but
if you wanted to go back to the previous one you could click the back button
and the previous page would show up.

Now the back button is dimmed and in many cases it is impossible to use it
unless, I think the pages you flip are thematically related to the original
website.

I want to find a way to undo it. I want my Internet Browser to be able to go
back any time I changed the web page.

How can I do it. I could not find an option to unclick so far.

Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Uh, click the back button, or if you want to take two steps back or more,
click the 'Recent Pages' icons next to the forward button and click the
previously visited pages. If you want to open a new webpage or IE window,
click the Page menu and click 'New Window' alternatively CTRL + N

 

[alexB]

Uh, Andre, apparently you misunderstood me.It is a more complicated thing. I
will try to explain although there is a chance, I will have to make more
durable observations to document it.

None of your advice will work. I tried the recent page menu and those
precious urls are not there. Only those which I entered manually are added
to the menu.

I am primarily concerned with pages that I want to preview while I have
another page open in Internet Explorer Browser.

Let's say I went to MS website and got a page of MSDN documentation. There
are many secondary label-links in the ASP and I can click one or two, view
the content and I CAN GET BACK to the original MSDN dovumentation page by
using the back buttton. None of the pages I visited will be in the menu
under any cercumstances.

So far so good! Here is the crucial point.

Let's say I leave the Internet Browser with the page open on desktop and
began reading some newsgroups like I am doing now. Let's say I see a link
you recommend. I want to check it out. I click it and this link will open
the new page in Internet Explorer Browser, my MSDN page with document I
haven't finished is gone, at times I do not even remember what it was, very
often I have a vague feeling that it was something important but THERE IS NO
BACK BUTTON ENABLED.

So I cannot get back to the page I just lost.

You described to me a recipe for a much simple situation which is not a
problem.

Now, I swear this feature was introduced about two years ago in Internet
Explorer Browser. Before that time you could go back as far as your history
size that you set up allowed you to do.

I WANT TO HAVE THIS FEATURE BACK. I have a gut feeling that there should be
a switch somewhere or a parameter. It could be a command line exec, I do not
care but I want it to be changed. It slows down my productivity because I
cannot be on alert all the time. I keep forgetting. I click on a link and
the previous page is gone. Often I wonder what it was.

Thanks.

 

[Mick Murphy]

You simply close the link you have clicked here, and it goes back to where
you were!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Alex

Are you using the 'Tabbed' browsing feature in IE? If so, when you click a
link that is set to open a new browser window, it will open in a new tab and
each page will be on a separate tab. If the link opens in the current
window, then the back button will be available and work to go to the
previous page in that tab.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[AlexB]

Ronnie, I do not understand you. Speak plain English

What do you mean by Tab browsing feature? Where can I set it up? I could not
see anything in Internet Options, nothing close.

Please explain to an uneducated.

Many thanks.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Alex

When you open Internet Options, look on the General Tab, next to the bottom.
You should see 'Tabs'. Click the Settings Button and you'll see all of the
options.

 

[AlexB]

How incredibly simple it was

Thank you very much.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Alex

Your welcome, enjoy the surfin.