IE8 Blues update

I was able to get around the problem of IE8 hanging. I went to add/remove programs and looked for anything that looked like a plug-in and removed it. The one that seemed to do the trick was removing IE7PRO which is a pretty nice plug-in for IE7 that apparently gives IE8 congestion. I guess I'll live without it or wait for an update that is IE8 compatible.

IE8 Blues

Well, I'm having to write this post from the Opera browser.  I could have used Chrome or Firefox or just about any other browser.  Since I let the "upgrade" of IE8 go in, I am unable to access ANYTHING using IE.  The problem first reared it's head when IMDB said I had to load flash 8 or later.  I knew I had flash 10 on already so I knew something was up.  When I tried to reload flash it said it was already installed and sure enough I could find it and it said enabled.  After some poking around I found that if IE8 has trouble with ANY ONE of the add-in it put IE in a "special" no add-ins enabled mode.  You have to figure out what it is having issues with and disable them, restart IE and hope you don't run into any more.  At the moment, I am locked into a mode where IE won't even come up enough for me to manage the add-ons.  I'm quite sure I won't be able to uninstall or go back to IE7 and many other posts I've read seem to back that up.  Google around before you load IE8 and see if the problems have answers before you leap.  I wish I'd have.