I don't know how many of you this may affect, but I thought it useful
information to share.
Case:
Windows 7 (any version could be affected) (Clean install or not)
Internet Explorer 9 and up
When I ran Internet Explorer, the start up page would load, but instead of
seeing a webpage, all I saw was white. My cpu usage was pegged. I would get an
error message and click the close browser button. The browser just kept
throwing out the same error message over and over again.
When I disabled the Display Adapter (video card) in Device Manager, IE worked
just fine.
I discovered a setting that can be used in Internet Options that fixes this
problem. IE by default, uses GPU (Graphics Processing Unit aka Video Card)
rendering for its webpages. If you have a wimpy (cheap) Graphics Adapter like
the one in the machine I'm working on, it won't be able to give IE what it
wants/needs. So instead, IE needs to use Software rendering.
In an ideal world, (hint, hint microsoft...), IE would detect this conflict and
automatically fix this issue with no user intervention. Until then, some of us
need to do things the manual way.
Here's the trick:
Open the Internet Options (do this in the Control Panel>Network and
Internet>Internet Options).
Click Advanced tab.
In the Settings section, find Accelerated graphics (for me it was at the top of
the list.)
Put a check mark next to: Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering.
Click OK.
Run IE. All is fine...
The information about this conflict and resolution can be found at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338138.aspx
in the section titled:
"Internet Explorer is crashing or seems slow".
Note: The microsoft page references IE 11. As I stated earlier, this affects IE
9 and up.
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