You can speedup Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7 with the below quicktip:

Close IE8.
Go to elevated command prompt, by following the steps below:

• Click Start, All Programs
• Go to Accessories
• Right-click Command Prompt
• Select “Run as administrator” option.
• Select “Yes” when the UAC prompt appears.
• Enter the following:

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

• Press Enter.
• Click OK when the confirmation prompt appears.

Also, you may try installing the chrome plugin which improves the performance 10 times to the current speed. Read out..

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On Oct 13,2009, Microsoft has release the IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2009. This update addresses three privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability as per Microsoft in its MSDN Blog.

The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer processes data stream headers, validates arguments, and handles objects in memory. To know more about the update, visit:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-054.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974455

However, some of the users have reported that installation of the cumlative update 974455 causes “Type Mismatch” error.

Do run our FiX IE utlity to resolve these issues.

Post with any other issues that you may have for further assistance.

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