Links not highligthed on return to page

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Galen Somerville

Highlight is probably the wrong term

I'm on a page with many links. I click on one and go to that page.

I close that page and am back on the many links page. Nothing shows which
link I had just selected.

On Win98se, that link would stand out so I know which one I had just used.

See http://home.surewest.net/galen/private/xppics/xppics.html

Top pic shows I,m choosing 1 of 4 possible links.

Middle pic shows I'm exiting that page.

Bottom pic shows how Win98se tells me which one I last used.

How to make WinXP do the same???

Galen
 
Apparently XP does this automatically. That's why you can't tell which was
the last link you used !!

Galen
 
The page is not refreshing automatically. If you'd clicked on a link on the
page and then refresh it manually, the link in question should change color
(assuming you've not messed around with various Compatibility settings).
--
IE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
 
These are the instructions in Help & Support to modify the colors used.
I'm sure that you can go there to verify if your machine is even set up to use the
default colors.
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In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.
Click the General tab, and then click Colors.
Clear the Use Windows colors check box.
Do any of the following:

To change the color used for links you have already visited, click the box to the
right of Visited, click the color you want to be used for visited links, and then
click OK.
To change the color used for links you have not visited, click the box to the right
of Unvisited, click the color you want to be used for unvisited links, and then click
OK.
To change the color that a link will become when you point at it, select the Use
hover color check box, click the box to the right of Hover, click the color you would
like links to change to when the mouse pointer hovers over them, and then click OK.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

~Gary
 
Yes, but if you've messed around with either Windows XP's or IE's
Compatibility options, doing so would trump those settings.
 
I'll give that newsgroup a try.

Galen

PA Bear said:
The page is not refreshing automatically. If you'd clicked on a link on
the page and then refresh it manually, the link in question should change
color (assuming you've not messed around with various Compatibility
settings).
--
IE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
Click to expand...
 
Stick with this one for now, please. (I'll just see your new thread in IE
General anyway.)

Have you enabled any Accessibility options in WinXP or IE?
 
No. If I didn't mention it, I'm using IE6.

I'm not a fan of IE7 but will install it if you think it will solve my
problem.

Galen
 
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