My IE stopped working when I go to open IE it comes up with a warning to restart from last page or home page either one I try says windows is searching for a problem then shuts down IE, I tried to remove IE8 from Windows features and reinstall same issue when I first installed two days earlier I it worked fine, I have no add-onsAny help would be greatBasically in event viewer it says application cannot not find iexplorer.exe cannot find pathIt is a celeron 2.6 ghz with 2Gb of ram

Try this workaround: http://pctechnow.blogspot.com/2008/08/cant-find-explorerexe-when-run-from.htmlCarey Frisch

that did not work, there is not an under the key listed for explorer or iexplorer, my vista machine has iexplorer in the key and it works fine, I went cmd line to internet explorer directory ddi iexplorer.exe i worked closed IE and same problem again

dkef - Check under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer for any trace of iexplore.exe. If you've got the 64 bit variation, check under C:\Program Files (X86)\...

if it is any help here is the error log: Log Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate: 5/11/2009 8:01:20 PMEvent ID: 1000Task Category: (100)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: EMachDescription:Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 8.0.7100.0, time stamp: 0x49ee9200Faulting module name: comctl32.dll, version: 6.10.7100.0, time stamp: 0x49eea489Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x000a9570Faulting process id: 0x610Faulting application start time: 0x01c9d294c66e2a35Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7100.0_none_d75e6751736615f2\comctl32.dllReport Id: 05ada379-3e88-11de-b86d-000cf1eed581Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System <Provider Name="Application Error" /><EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> <Level>2</Level><Task>100</Task><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-12T00:01:20.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>700</EventRecordID><Channel>Application</Channel><Computer>EMach</Computer> <Security /></System><EventData><Data>iexplore.exe</Data><Data>8.0.7100.0</Data><Data>49ee9200</Data><Data>comctl32.dll</Data><Data>6.10.7100.0</Data><Data>49eea489</Data><Data>c0000005</Data><Data>000a9570</Data><Data>610</Data><Data>01c9d294c66e2a35</Data><Data>C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe</Data><Data>C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7100.0_none_d75e6751736615f2\comctl32.dll</Data><Data>05ada379-3e88-11de-b86d-000cf1eed581</Data></EventData</Event>

i have the 32 bit version and iexplore.exe is there

dkef - Ok... So what happens if you double click on the EXE directly?