Open Internet Explorer Shortcuts in a New Window

All Windows

This setting controls whether Internet shortcuts are opened in an existing available Internet Explorer window or whether a new window should be spawned.

Open your registry and find or create the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "AllowWindowReuse" and set it according to the value data below.

Exit your registry; you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

Registry Settings

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
Value Name: AllowWindowReuse
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = new window, 1 = existing window)

Open Favorites in a new window

All Windows

This tweak adds an additional right-click menu item to your Favorites entries which allows you to choose to open the Favorite in a new window.

Open your registry.

Follow the instructions in this tweak to cause Internet Explorer to not re-use windows when opening shortcuts.

Then find the key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\shell] in your registry and create a new sub-key called "Open in a new window", under the new key create another new sub-key called "command" and set the (Default) value to 'rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %1'.

The change should take effect immediately.

Right-click on a Favorite and you should see an option called "Open in a new window".

Registry Settings

System Key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\shell\Open in a new window\command]
Value Name: (Default)
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %1