How to Restore “You’ve opened a new tab” Page in Internet Explorer 7?

In Internet Explorer 7, whenever you open a new tab, you are presented with a “You’ve opened a new tab” page which contains a few helpful tips for tabbed browsing in IE as shown in following screenshot:

You_Have_Opened_New_Tab_in_IE7.png

This page also contains a checkbox “Don’t show this page again” and if you select it while clicking on “Close” button, IE7 will no longer show this page. Instead it’ll show a blank page whenever you open a new tab.

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Surprisingly, there is no option given to re-enable it anywhere in IE settings. Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to restore this page:

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing

3. In right-side pane, you’ll see a DWORD value “ShowTabsWelcome“.

ShowTabsWelcome.png

Either change its value to 1 or delete it.

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4. That’s it. Now IE7 will start showing “You’ve opened a new tab” page again.

PS: If you want ready-made registry scripts to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. it’ll ask for confirmation, accept it:

Download Registry Script

Published in: Internet Explorer, Troubleshooting Guides

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. I have tried the steps in the article How to Restore “You’ve opened a new tab” Page in Internet Explorer 7 but sadly the “ShowTabsWelcome” is not showing. If anyone has any other ideas how to restore this please let me know.

  2. How to Restore “You’ve opened a new tab” Page in Internet Explorer 7?

    My fault I couldn’t see the “ShowTabsWelcome”… didn’t search through the whole registry key –

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Software
    Microsoft
    Internet Explorer
    TabbedBrowsing

    It worked! Thank you so much.

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