Hello Soybean,
I did follow a habit of upgrading Windows, until the last time for Vista Basic Home. At the last upgrade, the OS went crazy. Looping start to load to shutdown. I eventually got it to start in safe mode and did system restore before the update.
This same thing happened with the WinXP Home Media Edition on the other HD.
I have not updated any Win OS since then. I thought if the IE8 needed just the 3 files that were listed on the links posted to desktop by the update wizard then I would try that, but like I said, the links do not go anywhere.
I would like to find a small program that would stay open and run a search on everypage I view for the search term (heavy into genealogy) and IE8 EDIT, FIND ON THIS PAGE did stay with me when surfing [residing in the toolbar section.
John