my guess is you have IE with yahoo add ons which make it yahoo centered. You can go to your control panel add remove programs and remove all that extra yahoo stuff like the toolbar etc. IE is by Microsoft no one else makes IE period, there are add ons that can be added to it but if you have IE8 you have the Microsoft IE8. Deleting the extra yahoo stuff will not affect your yahoo email at all you can still go to yahoo and sign into your yahoo mail account, you can do that from any pc anywhere. I totally agree in downloading and installing firefox or an other browser so should that one stop working you still have a way to get online. I personally use firefox, it is super easy to do just go to the download site, choose to download the windows version, it will install, in the process it will ask if you want to import your settings from IE just say yes to all and it will set up firefox exactly as you have your Ie with all your bookmarks and home page etc. It will ask if you want to make it default you can say no that can be changed any time. Then once it is done and installed anytime you want to use firefox to go online just click on the firefox icon on your desktop or tray, you can go back and forth using IE and firefox and can even use both at the same time. Firefox has a lot of great add ons for it that I love. Should you need the download link to re-install IE8 here is where to go. Internet Explorer 8: My guess is what you actually got is this right here Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo! IE8 optimized for Yahoo allows you to get instant visual results and helpful suggestions with enhanced Yahoo! Search. Preview your Yahoo! Mail Inbox with a click, and enjoy the built-in Yahoo! Toolbar. Explorer optimized for Yahoo!. here is how to disable the yahoo addons Add and remove Internet Explorer 8 add-ons Here is a link that might be useful: firefox

I sometimes get that message when I have a loose connection, either with my cable modem or the Linksys router. It will clear after checking the connections and/or pushing the reset button. Just my 2 c's. Bejay

Thank you for your quick replies. The message says: "Do you want to view only web page contents that were delivered securely. Your web wage contain contents that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connection which could compromise the security of the entire web wage. Answer yes or no." This pops up twice before I get to my e-mails. The second part is that all pictures are not displayed - only small colored squares indicate where the pictures should be. Have Windows XP - guess I went from Internet Explorer 7 to 8 as prompted (without thinking about it) and now want to go back. Had Firefox a long, long time ago - don't like change! Use computer only for emails and to google. Await your response and thanks again.

If you have turned Tabs off, did you have 2 IE8 windows open at the time you saw 2 IE8 processes running? I'm guessing that you did and that is exactly what I would expect Task Manager to show. If you did not have 2 windows open, then something else is going on. You didn't say how much memory is in the machine, but if you have only the minimum then IMHO using tabs would better than opening multiple IE windows.