Hi,

About a month ago, I was looking to an answer to a problem I had with IE6 opening minimized and seemingly not allowing resizing. This happened after installing and de-installing a popup blocker.
I just corrected the problem and thought I'd share my solution:
When the IE window opens minimized, rightclick and choose the size option.
It is subtle, but you will actually see a single pixel on the screen representing the IE window with zero height & width - it is actually NOT minimized, it just has no dimensions.
Resize it at this point (it is tricky trying to do this as it is just a point on the screen).
After that it should be OK.