It's more than likely a broken graphics driver than IE10 per se. Although IE10 could be the first app you installed that exercised that part of the driver. It's worth checking to see if your laptop's manufacturer has issued an update.

There has been an nVidia update lately that has broken all sorts of things on Windows 7. This was pushed out about the same time as IE 10. Reverting to an earlier driver (and blocking the update) solved this problem for me. As you say, Windows problems like this are almost always caused by third-party drivers.

yes I had many hangs on my win8 testing in IE.

I have left IE9 in place on my windows 7 for now, especially as the dll I use on my IE9 to disable that horrible anti aliasing of fonts isnt available for IE10.

this no IE10 version of it --> http://www.softwareninjas.ca/dwrite-dll-wrapper

Would that it would.

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Maybe someone could explain this fervour for a desktop?

Many people think it's a place to store things so they can find them, sadly. By "things" I include folders full of documents, photos, etc.

They learn the folly of this when the desktop gets deleted or corrupted with a user profile.

Of course the user profile has the default My Documents, My pictures etc etc etc sitting in it.

People stupidly assumed that as MS actually put these default folders in the user profile that they might want to put their data there.

Myself I don't use any of the folders in the user profile I prefer making my own folder tree on an external drive.

You think that's daft? You should see the hoops that us programmers have to leap through to locate those folders on all versions of Windows. There's at least three API functions at least one of which is deprecated and the two most recent have several different possible constants to use.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desk...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desk...

So much fun it shouldn't be legal :-/

I love windows 8, everything runs on it at it is very fast and stable.

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I love windows 8, everything runs on it at it is very fast and stable.

Everythign? i would not go that far

You obviously aren't using it properly then ;p

I just hope that Microsoft realises that charging for upgrades wouldn't be a good idea.

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I just hope that Microsoft realises that charging for upgrades wouldn't be a good idea.

Again, this is what TCPI was all about. It's still very much alive.

In reference to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing:

Trusted Computing opponents such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Software Foundation claim trust in the underlying companies is not deserved and that the technology puts too much power and control into the hands of those who design systems and software. They also believe that it may cause consumers to lose anonymity in their online interactions, as well as mandating technologies Trusted Computing opponents say are unnecessary. They suggest Trusted Computing as a possible enabler for future versions of mandatory access control, copy protection, and digital rights management.

Some security experts have spoken out against Trusted Computing, believing it will provide computer manufacturers and software authors with increased control to impose restrictions on what users are able to do with their computers. There are concerns that Trusted Computing would have an anti-competitive effect on competition in the IT market.