Comments on: How to Restore Default “New Tab” Page in Internet Explorer 8?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:52:29 +0000

Thanks mate, that was helpful.

Cheers!

By: VG

VG — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:29 +0000

^^ There is no built-in option to do this but you can either middle-click on the bookmark or press "CTRL" key while clicking on the bookmark to open it in a new tab. Same applies to links present in a webpage.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:55 +0000

Hi VG,
I am not a big fan of IE, but I would like to know how to: how to automatically open a new tab when clicking on a site in bookmarks without first creating the new tab on the taskbar?

Thanks.

By: Skweekah

Skweekah — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:30:55 +0000

thanks. worked for me.

By: MT

MT — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:38:18 +0000

Sorry didn't see Kush's comment to start with. " res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm "

By: MT

MT — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:29:29 +0000

Sometimes software chages "The new tab page." That's what happened to me, I already checked there and I already found the changed entry in the registry but what I'm looking for is the default value for the registry entry Tabs.

By: VG

VG — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:15:49 +0000

^^ There should be an option to enable / disable the page in Winamp Settings.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:41:55 +0000

Hi, My problem is that about:tab page was replaced by the winamp page, and how to repair this?

By: president Kush

president Kush — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:25:43 +0000

found it!!! if method shown in this blog doesn't work, that means that a program has changed the WINDOWS REGISTRY, so here is how you fix it...

Click Start (windows start button in lower left hand corner)
Click "Run"
Type: regedit (in the Run Dialog Box)
Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs

Right Click on "Tabs" (in the right column)
Left Click "Modify" on the Right Click Menu.
In the "Edit String" Window replace the contents of "Value data" Dialog Box with:

res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm

By: president Kush

president Kush — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:01:56 +0000

this will not help in ALL situations..!!! I ran into this problem first, when installing icq on my pc, fixed, and now i just got comcast installed @ my new apartment and it happended again. comcasts, icq, others? will replace the "the new tab page" option, so even when setting it to the "the new tab page" option, it will STILL NOT go back to the original IE8 default blank tab page. To fix this, you have to go into the REGISTRY and change some stuff. I'll try and find out how to do it again, and I'll post a link for anyone still having problems.