On a Windows Vista-based computer, you browse Web pages in Windows Internet Explorer 7. You specify the text size on the View menu in an Internet Explorer window. You expect that the text size setting will be applied to all the Internet Explorer windows that you open later. However, the setting is only applied to the window in which you specify the setting. The windows that you open later still use the original text size.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• Protected mode is enabled in Internet Explorer 7.
• The window in which you specify the text size contains Web pages that use an encoding type other than UTF-8 encoding, such as Shift-JIS character encoding.

Note: This problem does not occur if Internet Explorer 7 is installed on a computer that is running one of the following operating systems:

• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003