some website links cause the opening of a blank page

[FrEdBakker]

Hi everyone

On a large number of occasions when I click on a link on a website , ie opens a blank page caption.
I found that the only way to get to the link you require is to right click on the mouse and click
on copy link and put that in the browser.

That is not the obvious way it should work.

Have done some research on the net for a solution, but so far I am stuck with the problem.

Any comments very welcome.

regards,

Fr Ed Bakker

 

[maxie]

Hi Welcome to Seven Forums .. Which Web Browser are you using ?

Do you have any add-ons extensions Installed ? ...

Have you tried with other Browsers ? ...

Can you give an example of the Links you are trying to open ?

 

[FrEdBakker]

links causing blank pages

Hello Maxie

Thanks for the welcome

Using IE9
No add ons
have not tried other browers
the link to the forum in the e-mail from the forum did not work, caused a blank page.
all links on google drive cause blank pages
just about every other link

cheers,
FrEdBakker

 

[maxie]

Which Antivirus Program are you using ? ..

Also may i ask why are you using IE9 ... ?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi Fred and welcome to SevenForums,
If you have Internet explorer pinned to your taskbar right click it and click on Start In-Private browsing,
You can also open ie and use Alt+TI or Menubar/ Tools/ In-Private browsing,
See if that makes any difference,
Cheers.

 

[FrEdBakker]

links causing blank pages

Which Antivirus Program are you using ? ..

Also may i ask why are you using IE9 ... ?

Good evening

A typing error Maxie , am using IE11 the latest.

Anti virus program is ESET

Cheers,


Father Ed Bakker

 

[FrEdBakker]

links causing blank pages

Hi Fred and welcome to SevenForums,
If you have Internet explorer pinned to your taskbar right click it and click on Start In-Private browsing,
You can also open ie and use Alt+TI or Menubar/ Tools/ In-Private browsing,
See if that makes any difference,
Cheers.

Hi

thanks for the welcome , I shall try

cheers,

Fr Ed Bakker

ps thanks for the welcome

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi your welcome,
Look forward to an update,
If no real difference

Open ie as you always do,
Use Alt+TD or Gear symbol on the top right/ safety/ Delete browser history,
Uncheck all of the boxes and click on delete.
Note this does not delete any of your existing logins...
Close ie and re-open and test again,
Cheers.

 

[FrEdBakker]

Thanks everyone for their help !

In the end , a friend of mine , a qualified MS Technician fixed it .Unbeknown to me I had caught a number of viruses , so he cleaned the laptop up . Things are going fine now. He told me not to use clean up programs as c clean by Piriform , he felt that they don't do much.

Have a great weekend and thanks again guys,


Father Ed Bakker
Bendigo
Australia

 

[ThrashZone]

Thanks for the update,
Your friend is correct windows has as good and safer tools built in,
I'm sure your friend pointed out the built in tools to use,
The best defense against viruses and malware is your security which you haven't said what you have but,
These are what I use,
Microsoft security essentials = Free
Malwarebytes premium = not free
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free
And to clean up tracking cookies I use
Superantispyware = does have a free version that's very good,
http://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=SUPERANTISPYWARE
Cheers.

 

[FrEdBakker]

Links causing blank windows

Thanks mate,

Use Malware bytes now and will try the other one you suggested.

Don't use IOBIT Uninstaller or systems maintenance _ freeware , it is bad news.

Cheers,

Father Ed Bakker