Restore IE6 Windows Explorer separate process behaviour for IE7  
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Internet Explorer / IE >> Restore IE6 Windows Explorer separate process behaviour for IE7

With IE6, if the IE option "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" was
cleared, and the Windows Explorer option "Launch folder windows in a separate
process" was set, then clicking a hyperlink in an email message in Outlook
would not only open a new IE window to display the link, very importantly
this IE window was a completely separate process from all running IE windows.
This provided crash isolation for each IE instance from wipeouts caused in
any other IE instance. Looking at Task Manager, you would actually see
multiple instances of iexplore.exe running.
In IE7, with these same option settings, clicking on a hyperlink in an email
message in Outlook always re-uses the same iexplore.exe process, even though
it does correctly open a new window / tab as configure in IE7's options.
(This also has the annoying side effect of un-minimizing and briefly granting
focus to the running IE7 instance, which messes up the order in which ALT+TAB
cycles through running processes).
Microsoft, please revert IE7 to the earlier IE6 behaviour of actually
running multiple independent instances of iexplore.exe.
Thank you
-Jay Libove, CISSP


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