Internet Explorer 10 opens multiple pages automatically

They may be already open tabs that are left hanging. To close out the app, move your cursor to the top of the page so that the little hand shows up, click and drag to the bottom of the screen to close out the browser. This should refresh it.

Another thing is that you may have created multiple start up pages once the browser boots. Those are adjusted through internet options.

Finally, you may have let in a virus...

Thank you, but it can't be the first one because I don't leave tabs or pages open, and I mean there are 50 or more pages that open up in mere seconds. I usually use W8 in the "desktop" mode, not through the tiles, since my laptop is NOT a touch screen. I have checked Internet Options several times; I have not created multiple start up pages in those settings. Ran Malwarebytes -- it found nothing, nor did the scheduled Norton Scan. Sigh.

IE is very buggy in general. I would suggest switching to google chrome. If you're set on IE, you could try going back into internet options and restoring the default settings for the browser assuming you haven't already done that.

I wish I had a solution. It seems to happen on Amazon only in my case. It suddenly explodes with duplicate windows especially when I use the scroll button on the mouse. It just started doing this a few days ago on about March 15, 2013. I am using IE 10. It seems like a virus that affects only Amazon. If I use my laptop computer it doesn't do this.

I am not interested in generalized suggestions to switch to Chrome or other opinions to avoid IE. . I don't like Chrome at all. No way that it is as good as IE.

simple and I just found out , move your mouse to the internet explorer, right click and select " internet explorer " , repeat it and you will get dozens of it.

I am about 95% convinced this is some kind of virus infection that has somehow slipped through the antivirus software. I have run two different antivirus software applications for hours, but neither of them finds anything. I have two other computers that work fine with the exact same version of software. Originally I was using IE9 when this started. Then I upgraded to IE10 hoping it would go away, but it didn't. Also I have a third computer that is running Windows 8 without this problem. The problem is only on one computer. This is why I think it has to be a virus. My problem is slightly different than yours, I think. But it is basically the same. I have only experienced it on the Amazon.com website - nowhere else. I am about to give up and format my disk and reinstall all the software. But I really don't want to do that. I have so many applications that will need to be reinstalled. It will take days to recover. I just hate the people who write malicious evil virus software. I guess they get some perverted pleasure out of causing other people so much harm.

I just removed the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard software application and it seems to help a lot. But if I use my scroll wheel viciously, I can still create the problem. But even so, it does not create nearly as many new windows. I can still create the problem, just not as bad as before I removed that Microsoft mouse driver. I am using a Microsoft mouse, too. But I am using a different mouse model on my other computers. I really think this is a mouse software driver problem now. Who knows? Time will tell.

I gave up and installed Mozilla. It works without this multiple pages exploding. I think I will have to totally reinstall Windows 7 and start over to fix this problem.

Go to internet explorer options and check homepage settings as mine had three google .co.uk homepages set,
I deleted these and its now working perfectly no more multiple pages loading hope this helps.