Published on 09-Nov-06

When you open a new tab in Internet Explorer 7, the You've opened a new tab message appears, and you're unable to turn off this option even though the option Don't show this page again is selected.

"You've opened a new tab" message appears whenever a new tab is opened

Symptom

Workaround

The preference may not be saved due to a script error in the res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm page. As a workaround, you may alter the registry directly or use the REG files below to configure this setting.

Click Start, Run and type regedit.exe
Navigate to the following branch:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ TabbedBrowsing

Create a REG_DWORD value named ShowTabsWelcome
Leave the Value data for ShowTabsWelcome as 0
Exit the Registry Editor.

More information

To know why this problem occurs in the first place, please read my blog post Why doesn't the You've opened a new tab message go away?

Automate

You can automate the above using the .REG files available in the Attachments section of this article.