I have an icon for IE in my Quick Launch bar on my XP Home machines (at home) and my XP Pro machines (at work). In both cases, the icons open IE to Google. On the XP Home machines, each click of the icon opens a new IE window. On the Pro machines, IE replaces one of the existing IE windows with Google if one or more instance of IE is already open. I therefore lose one of my existing IE instances. Is there a setting in IE or in Pro so that I'll get a new instance of IE whenever I click the Quick Launch icon? P.S. Yes, I know about using Ctrl-N, but most of the corporate apps that run in IE turn off all toolbars. Ctrl-N opens a new window with no toolbars on our Pro machines. The Quick Launch icon opens a Google window with toolbars, but as I mentioned before, I lose one of my existing IE windows, typically one of the corporate apps that I need.

Which version of IE are you using? If IE7 then tabbed browsing is available so you don't need to run a new separate instance of IE for your different tasks. Just open a new tab for each. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

Sorry, forgot to mention the versions. It's IE 7 on the Home machine, IE 6 at work (Pro). It's the work system that I'm trying to "fix" and tab browsing isn't an option. Besides, even if it was IE7 at work, tabbed browsing would not help since the corporate apps turn of all toolbars. Tabbed browsing would still leave me without toolbars even when I wasn't running a corporate app in the new tab.

What toolbars are you talking about? You mean IE is crippled by your workplace so that you can't customize the settings?

I don't have IE6 in front of me, but in the Advanced Settings, there should be, "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts," or something to that effect. Turn that off.

Razor2.3: That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Jam: Although R2.3 has answered my question, I'll answer your's since you took the time to respond. When some of our corporate apps open up, they turn off *all* toolbars - Standard, Address, Links, Google, etc. All we get is the dark blue title bar. All navigation must be done via the app's drop down menus, links on the pages and, to a limited extent, the mouse's right-click menu. Ctrl-N will open a new window with menus but only if you hit Esc or quickly access a menu before the app loads into the new window. As soon as it loads, it turns off the menus. Even if you do catch it quick enough, the Links toolbar never shows up via Ctrl-N and you have to manually turn it back on. It's a real pain...they tell us it's to make more screen real estate available to the app. That's a crock, since you still have scroll down to see the full pages. It's not like each page fits within the viewable portion of the screen. That extra inch of data on the screen is not worth the hassle of not being able navigate in a normal manner.