I've been experiencing this occasional problem with IE8: Sometimes it stops responding indefinitely. When this happens, if I then click the X button to close the window, a message like this SHOWS up: «This window is busy. Closing this window may cause some problems. Are you sure you want to close it? OK/Cancel»
Is there a way to prevent this from happening or to workaround it when it occurs? Other IE8 users do also experience this? And more importantly, ANYONE knows what are those "problems" (referred in the error message) that may occur when I choose to close the window? You see, when this happens one are forced to close the IE window, or else IE remains unresponsive. have you tried re-installingYes, recently I reinstalled IE8, the version reinstalled was IE8 optimized for MSN, but it was still IE8 nevertheless. The problem described is the same that existed before reinstallation. Besides this problem, it should be NOTICED that IE8 takes significantly more time to start than its predecessor IE7, and takes much longer to open new tabs.

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I've been experiencing this occasional problem with IE8: Sometimes it stops responding indefinitely. When this happens, if I then click the X button to close the window, a message like this shows up: «This window is busy. Closing this window may cause some problems. Are you sure you want to close it? OK/Cancel»
Is there a way to prevent this from happening or to workaround it when it occurs? Other IE8 users do also experience this? And more importantly, anyone knows what are those "problems" (referred in the error message) that may occur when I choose to close the window?

Go back to IE7.

You can uninstall it first, but you need to have another browser like Firefox or something installed to get IE7 back. If you dont, then download it and uninstall IE8 and you should be good from there. If you try and install it without taking IE8 off it wont let you, it will say you already have a newer version than the one your trying to install. Happy troubleshooting.