Please state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista x64 SP2) when
posting to this newsgroup.

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running
in the background when you installed and/or uninstalled IE8?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?

Just asking for now!! Do NOT use such a Restore Point yet!! => Do you have
an available Restore Point which predates the install of IE8?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Stewart Berman wrote:
> I "upgraded" to IE8 as part of installing recommended updates and
> discovered that it does not support Personalized Favorites. As my
> favorites menu is rather large and complex this pushed me to revert to IE7
> which I did on June 20, 2009, and made sure the Enable personalized
> favorites menu option was checked. Unfortunately, IE did not revert to
> actually personalizing the favorites menu.
>
> The knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257128
> is titled: Enable Personalized Favorites Menu Feature Does Not Take Effect
> Immediately
> However it states:
> "If infrequently-used menu commands or shortcuts are still not demoted
> after you restart Internet Explorer, you may need to wait for as much as a
> week or more for the item to be demoted. "
>
> It is now two weeks and I still do not have a personalized favorites menu.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.