It’s happened to me a couple of times; not enough to be annoying.
It’s happened to me enough to switch to Firefox for awhile.
Not exactly what you have but have been experiencing a high number of ‘hangs’ where everything becomes unresponsive. I’ve pretty much done the same types of things as you. I do send in the error reports and when those are finished there is a tool included now that does a scan on the drive and supposedly fixes it...but hasn’t really helped.
Probably trying to get us to upgrade
I have not had the trouble you mention. For a while though IE would start up and then disappear. I would have to reopen it. In task manager I also see more than one IE running. I’ve stopped using it except on a few sites that seem to run better with it.
Hope this helps.
Maybe you need to do some software updates.
That was my fix. It worked.
/johnny
Have had IE8 stop responding a couple of times on facebook, but that could be something wrong with facebook and not IE.
Why are you still using IE8? Upgrade to IE9....
Worked for me.
If it works, why not. If plan "a" doesn't work, yet plan "b" does ... why not use plane "b". Are you so involved with the success of IE 8 that you are willing to subject yourself to the suffering that your describe rather then switch?
I’m not sure if this is the same problem, but I’ve had it happen a few times when playing a video that I force to stop before it ends. It then reports that there is an unrecoverable error in IE, but it usually does recovery in a few seconds. It doesn’t happen often. Maybe once a week, but it has been happening for the last several weeks.
A fast fix for IE8 crashes, slowdowns
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-fast-fix-for-ie8-crashes-slowdowns/1694
Personally, I don’t use IE ever. Firefox or Chrome are better choices.
A fast fix for IE8 crashes, slowdowns
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-fast-fix-for-ie8-crashes-slowdowns/1694
Personally, I don’t use IE ever. Firefox or Chrome are better choices.
IE8 is outdated. Downloading IE9 should solve your problem.
Did you run Microsoft Fix It?
IE8 is a pain in the neck. Use Firefox instead. Besides, with Firefox, you reload and not refresh. :)
Go to Tools / Manage Add-ons and start disbaling groups of add-ons to see if the problem goes away. Adobe and Shockwave are the typical culprits.
Soundcards can also cause problems and you should pull all the cards on the MB
before running the Ram check then placing them back one at a time until you
can recreate the problem.
Sometimes a bad seat can cause problems also, vibrations can loosen cards and
ram over time. Pull everything and place it back.
Just some ideas.