IE 11 opens blank tab

IE 11 opens a blank new tab on a windows 7 64 bit computer. I have had this problem before. After much research the only thing I found to work was uninstalling 11 and reinstalling 10. I cannot remember how I did that. All I remember is it was
a lot of work. After a few months IE automatically updated back to 11 and the problem came back. Is there an easier, more permanent solution? When I click on a link that should open a new tab the address in the new tab appears to be the same
as the old tab but the screen is blank.

Hi Gary,
thanks for the effort.... not quite what I expected.... a sample of what actually happens on your computer....
(google have different websites for different locales)...
You can try...
Tools>Internet Options
>Security tab, click "Reset all zones to default"
click the Trusted Sites icon, 'Sites' button, remove any google or youtube domains from the list.... (the Trusted sites zone actually has lower security).
THEN
>General tab of Internet Options>Tabbed browsing>Click the 'Restore Defaults' button.
>Content tab of Internet Options>check Popup blocker.
THEN
Tools>Manage Addons>Show all addons.... locate the Google Toolbar, Google toolbar helper in the list and disable them.
!important
Close and reopen ALL open IE windows (for the changes to the google addons to take place)
... it may be a good idea to reboot you computer at this stage (even better is to completely remove the google toolbar and then reboot, cause it hooks itself back into the browser without you knowing it).
If removing the google toolbar from you machine is not an option...
go to toolbar.google.com and check for an update for their toolbar,
or
Click on the Spanner icon on the GTB and turn off
Popup blocker
and
Quick Scroll
and
highlight search terms
THEN
go to google.com/history and turn of the Google History tracking.
Post consumer questions to http://answers.microsoft.com (Help>Online Support menu from IE)
this forum is for questions from company System Administrators managing 100's of computers.
Rob^_^

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