I recently bought a nice multimedia keyboard, two in fact (one at work, and one at home). It has a ton of keys, which I am able to set for various Intranet and Internet sites. Nice shortcuts. One problem. Every time I use one of my handy shortcut buttons, if I have an Internet Explorer window open already, it is ‘confiscated’, and I have to use the back button. Initially, I solved this issue by opening a new browser window, then hitting my button. This same problem occurs with links in email, such as notices from the lounge. I click a link to a thread I am active on, and boom, another page I have open is lost to the infamous back button.
Guess what?! I found a fix. Don’t know why I never knew this was there, it’s very simple, and I have no idea why it defaults to the value it does. Click Tools, then Internet Options, then go to the advanced tab. Now find the option with the text: “Reuse windows for launching shortcuts”, and uncheck it. Now, whenever you click a link in an email, or use something like my shortcut buttons, it is going to open that link in a brand new window.
Isn’t that handy?