Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a long history of not working very well. I was always a pc guy going back to win 3xx so it was hard to change but IE 8 was so bad i finally switched over to Firefox. Firefox is kind of laid back and easygoing. Internet Explorer doesn't play well with others so it gets fussy if a website doesn't exactly conform to Microsoft standards.
It's almost better to disable it. That way it's not eating up system resources. You can do it in win XP & 7 through add/remove programs ---> windows features. If you're running Vista that option isn't available.
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