IE10 Crashing and Freezing in Win 7 Ultimate

Every so often, at varying rates of occurrence, IE10 will crash with a window popping up saying it has stopped working , then will restart (most of the time). It also will freeze for around five seconds or so every once in a while, usually when opening a new tab. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it; that worked for a short while, then the problem came back. Sometimes I can go a long time without either happening, then it will happen several times just a few minutes apart. Sometimes, closing and reopening IE10 will fix it for a while; other times it laughs at me and starts crashing or freezing again. I can live with the occasional freezing but the crashing has gotten old.

Well, activating Enhanced Protection Mode didn't work. Darn!

I haven't found SAS to a drag on my system (with six cores and 32GB RAM, how could it?) but it hadn't caught anything is quite a while and I was considering dripping it until last Saturday, when I ran all my scans, it caught a couple of tracking cookies.

mitchell65 said:

If this started to happen recently then have you tried a system restore to a point behind that date?
I think this was caused by an update! I would go back to IE 9 much less troublesome.

It's been going on for a while. I have system restore disabled since I've found it so unreliable in the past and now depend on system images to roll back if necessary. And that hasn't helped here.

I would go back to IE9 but one of the websites I haunt won't run on it. Besides, I don't want to run away from the problem; I want to fix it.

mitchell65 said:

OK then try uninstalling it. Then go to the download page here:
Download Internet Explorer 10 - Download Internet Explorer 10
Make sure you download the right version. (64bit)
Then install that!

Ok, I just now did that. The two times before (the first time I installed it and the second time, after I had uninstalled it), I used Windoze update to install IE10. This time, the install shut down several of my programs during the install so that may make the difference. I've been running this latest installation only a few minutes so it may be a while before I will know if this worked or not. Keeping fingers (eyes, toes, etc.) crossed and knocking on wood (hitting head).

mitchell65 said:

Did you download from the link I gave you? this is important because there is another IE10 available!

Yes, I was a good girl and downloaded from your link. It's definitely a bit different from the one that came from Windoze Update. The installation was a bit different and my e-mail page (Yahoo) looks a wee bit different. The font is a bit more spidery; not enough to be a problem but just noticeable. If this works, I don't give the north end of a south bound furry little rodent how Yahoo looks as long as it is readable. So far, no crashes or freezes but, the previous times, it took a while before the problems started showing up so we are now in hurry up and wait mode. I've been doing a bunch of mindless browsing to try to hurry the hurry up and wait along a wee bit.