Longjohn wrote:

> Notice many people have this issue. The blurb by MS says that IE8 is very
> fast. Not my experience. Since installing it my downloads have become very
> much slower. Is there a way to go back to IE7 without causing software
> screwup?

If IE8 is slow to open tabs or windows:
- Remove all sites from the Restricted Sites security zone. Thousands
of entries (added by anti-malware programs) in this list will
severely slow IE8. Known bug. Manual removal is tedious. Save
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/DelDomains.inf to a file, right-
click on it, and select Install. This will make registry changes to
delete the ZoneMap entries and recreate them (but empty). ALL sites
in every security zone are deleted. If you have entries in the
Trusted Sites zone, record them before deletion.

Look in the Add/Remove Programs applet (and showing updates, too) in
Control Panel to see if there was an entry for "Windows Internet
Explorer 8". For Windows XP, you cannot uninstall IE8 if SP-3 was
installed after the install of IE8. You will need to first uninstall
SP-3 before you can uninstall IE8.

Below are some articles found simply by searching Microsoft's support
knowledgebase at http://support.microsoft.com/:

How Do I Uninstall or Remove Internet Explorer 8?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

Windows Internet Explorer 8 does not appear in the "Currently Installed
Updates" list in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/965227