Bugbatter, My question of apply button greyed out was answered by dell. Evidently I was not making changes in the right window, but the operator showed me that indeed tabbed and untabbed were working properly. I will mark this as closed and go to the malware forum as you suggested. Thank you very much, I really appreciate all your assistance.
I was on microsoft's website first and tried uninstalling ie8 and reinstalling. This did not work. My operating system is xp pro svc pk 3. I want to enable tabbed browsing. It shows enabled in internet options. One fix was to disable and then reable but the apply button was not activated either time. Another fix was to check if my antivirus program was the culprit, but that was not the case. Is there a solution to this problem?
IE8, internet options apply button grayed out.