Hi John, On my computer, IE8 is much faster than 6 or 7. IE9, however, has given me lots of trouble so i've gone back to IE8 on windows 7 computers. Bob Tinney, K8LR, [log in to unmask] Skype, bobtinn We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Computer crashing problem solved! I got rid of IE 8 on my netbook completely, it was slowing it down to the point of uselessness and I didn't like that version anyway.----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:04 AM Subject: Computer crashing problem solved! > Hi, > > About two months ago, my Dell xp computer started crashing unpredictably. > It had nothing to do with screen reading software, but it was very > annoying > to have my computer crash 2 or 3 times a week for no reason. I was > talking > with another amateur radio operator the other day who said that he thought > it might be internet explorer that was causing the problem, but that was > just a hunch. > > So, three days ago, I uninstalled internet explorer 8 and rolled back to i > e7. After rebooting, I reinstalled IE8 and I haven't had a crash since. > My > old computer also seems to be a little faster. > > Why the crashing started and why these actions fixed the problem, I don't > know. But uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 seems to have solved my > occasional crashing problem. > > Bob Tinney, K8LR, [log in to unmask] > Skype, bobtinn > We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way > through Congress!