IE8, Explorer.exe hang and Pagefile.sys 100% HD use

I am having a strange problems on Windows 7 RC 64-bit.

When using Internet Explorer 8, about once an hour, IE8, Explorer.exe and basically the whole system becomes unresponsive. During this time Pagefile.sys is peaking at 100% hard drive use (CPU use hovers around 20-30%). After about 2-3 minutes, everything is back to normal.

At first I thought maybe Windows was resizing my page file, so I set that manually, but the problem still occurs.

FireFox does not cause this problem

Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

MinnMonkey said:

I am having a strange problems on Windows 7 RC 64-bit.

When using Internet Explorer 8, about once an hour, IE8, Explorer.exe and basically the whole system becomes unresponsive. During this time Pagefile.sys is peaking at 100% hard drive use (CPU use hovers around 20-30%). After about 2-3 minutes, everything is back to normal.

At first I thought maybe Windows was resizing my page file, so I set that manually, but the problem still occurs.

FireFox does not cause this problem

Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

Every day, multiable times a day. I have Safari 4.0 also, and it does better by far. Bad thing about IE8 or IE in general, it is hooked all in to the system and even just getting to downloads is a pain of being so slow.

Xcode said:

Every day, multiable times a day. I have Safari 4.0 also, and it does better by far. Bad thing about IE8 or IE in general, it is hooked all in to the system and even just getting to downloads is a pain of being so slow.

Any idea what is causing this?

it all really started after the SP2 and SP3 updates for Office 2007.

I also have the same problem when browsing with IE8. I also have Office 2007 installed.

Does anyone have a fix for this problem yet? Use a different browser for the meantime?