What updates did you install? AFAIK, none of the updates released on 10
Nov-09 were for Win7 or IE8:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms09-nov.mspx
Top wrote:
> I have IE 8 w/Windows 7. Has been working fine until this morning. I did
> notice that the auto update did an update on windows, I did a recovery and
> still IE will not load. Anyone having this issue and how to correct it.
>
> What happens IE starts loading, comes up with dialog that it quit working
> and nothing else. Dead in the water.