IE 11 and Docking Tabs

Hello Experts,

I have a end user who's IE 11 has stopped letting him un-dock and drag his currently open webpages to his second monitor. you can only open multiple tab's inside the one explorer. If he wants to move his open web pages to his second screen he has to minimize his current window and drag it to the other screen. Any idea what causes this or how to fix it?

Thank you,

GTS

Web BrowsersWindows 7Internet / Email SoftwareWindows OS

Last Comment

GalaxyTechService

8/22/2022 - Mon

marsilies

8/12/2016

I found this info about your issue:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/238914-ie-tab-not-able-do-drag-tab-new-window.html

There are a lot of reasons for either IE tabs to not be able to tear away, and also if often affects the Desktop icons, in that you cannot move them around....

some of the ones I have run into:
1) Aero causes an issue (especially with dual screens) turn off Aero and see if that solves it.

2) if you recently updated Video drivers, roll back to the previous. if you have not recently updated then try to update to the most recent. I have seen a lot of posts about Nvidia cards specifically having this issue.

3) Select "start" button - click "run" - type "regedit" and hit ok.
in the new opened regedit window , navigate to the below path

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\

delete this entry "no active desktop changes" and restart the machine. (this worked for me)