Hi all!
Traddles' problem is a little more complex that a simple uninstall. Somewhere along the line either one of the million+ dlls has got corrupted/wrong version and/or there seems to be a registry problem.
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Regarding uninstalling IE8, I did that yesterday.
I was doing some work for a client. I had saved everything to the server and sent a backup to my other office (8 miles up the road). I went off and made a cup of coffee. When I came back, there was the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. I'd never had that on this PC before, so I was a bit surprised. I rebooted, but it went straight to the same screen. It was a BAD_POOL_HEADER message, which was unusual...
The PC booted OK into Vista, so I knew that the hardware was fine. I ran scandisk and apart from a cross-linked file, it found no problems. Now the only thing I had done recently was to install IE8 when I was helping Angus.
Rather than spend all day finding a messed up DLL, I simply inserted the Windows Home Server restore disk. That goes to the WHS computer and downloads whichever of the last 50 backups I wish to install.
I selected the backup from 1 a.m. the same day, and after a while the PC was back as it had been, as if nothing had ever happened.
I LOVE Windows Home Server. That's twice it has saved me an immense amount of work! (Last time was when a hard disk went bang).
IE8? No way...