One of our customers wanted the latest edition of Internet Explorer for Windows 7. So I downloaded Internet Explorer 10 for them. When I would opened Internet Explorer 10, it would instantly crash on start up. Here are the steps to resolve the issue.
Go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options.
Next click on the Advanced tab and check the box Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering.
Then restart your computer. Open up Internet Explorer and it should now work fine!
Update 2/22/15 : I noticed I received a bunch of hits on this article recently. I don’t know if this corresponds with this Internet Explorer crashing issue or not but I thought I would post a link just in case. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Symantec-Confirms-Faulty-Antivirus-Update-That-Caused-Internet-Explorer-Crashes-473883.shtml
Good Luck!
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Thanks for this. Worked for me.
I had to do the same with Firefox after the V24 update.
Thank you. This saved me a great deal of time.
Bless you. I wasted an entire afternoon on this before finding your page.
It worked for me too. I have IE 11, I was ready to make a windows reinstall. This tip saved me from that.
Thank you so much for this. I’ve been struggling with this problem and your solution worked. Much appreciated 🙂
What does the setting actually do? It deff works and fixed my issue, not sure how.
Thanks a lot! That worked for me too 🙂
didn’t work.
Mine is ticked and can’t untick it because it’s grey out, HELP
I would try to run Internet Explorer as an administrator and then try unchecking the box. If that doesn’t work I would try “Restoring advanced settings” in Internet Explorer. That should get your box unticked, let me know if you have any luck with those tips, thanks.
I would look at display driver or other display related problems. Perhaps a universal docking station with Viewspan software. I had the same issue with the HP universal Docking software.
Worked perfectly for me. I never had to restart to get it work but it seems to be working fine now. Thank you very much
Thanks a lot solved my problem!
This didn’t work at all! I don’t know what else to try.
Worked fine for me on IE 11 and Windows 7.
Thanks spent ages on this.
Worked fine for me on IE 11 and Windows 7.
THANK YOU
Superb tip! been struggling for a while, uninstalled/reinstalled, removed add-ons etc. This hit the spot – IE11 Win7
Thanks so mooch so mooch thanks this help big time save my day