schuarta, you are lucky that you have IE 10 working on your machine. I tried IE 10 and behaves the same as IE 11 on my machine - launches with blank white window and shuts down in about 20 seconds.
I would be happy with IE 10 because, I believe, that it has the option to start with tabs from last session. IE 9 doesn't have this option, otherwise, I would be happy with IE9.
I have been using Firefox because of this problem. However, Firefox has it's own problems - mainly, for me, it's that video from from some sites don't work.