Perhaps the IE8 Privacy Mode is what your looking for, DA

I have 2 favorites to click on. One in my menu bar that hasn't changed since I changed to IE8 from IE7. It has everything that I had added prior to IE8.Even drop down sub-categories which I just scroll over to view. But, I have noticed that the favorites tab to the far left of my windows tabs on the command bar has selected sites. But they do expand to sub-categories when I click on them. I like the scroll option better, myself. Less stress on the nails!!! haha!

have you tried uninstalling it and reinstalling? I have used iespell for years and never ever had any problems with it. I know that IE7pro add on does include a good spell checker and it does work with IE8 that is one option, another is the google toolbar which also includes a spell checker. I personally do not like toolbars so avoid them. ieSpell have you tried right click and tell it to ''check spelling'' , iespell then spell checks? other options tinySpell FreeSpell http://www.ie7pro.com/index.php?language=en from what I have read Ie7pro does work with Ie8

Here is the listing from whocrashed. I see that it refers to avast antivirus. When I initially tried to install my new IE* I believe that I had disabled Avast for 10 minutes. But I admit that I have forgotten to disingage it in all of my other actions. I will send this and perhaps I will have time to use your routine above to try uninstalling ie8 again with avast disabled and get back again. If I had any sense, I would have tried system restore. I haven't really done that much with this computer and it likely would have done the trick in the first place. System Information (local) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- computer name: I4000 windows version: Windows XP Service Pack 3, 5.1, build: 2600 windows dir: C:\WINDOWS CPU: GenuineIntel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz Intel586, level: 15 1 logical processors, active mask: 1 RAM: 1073143808 total VM: 2147352576, free: 2027573248 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crash Dump Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crash dump directory: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump Crash dumps are enabled on your computer. On Wed 8/29/2012 1:32:48 AM GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini082812-05.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: aswsp.sys (aswSP+0x18654) Bugcheck code: 0xC2 (0x40, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF80000000, 0x0) Error: BAD_POOL_CALLER file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\aswsp.sys product: avast! Antivirus company: AVAST Software description: avast! self protection module Bug check description: This indicates that the current thread is making a bad pool request. This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: aswsp.sys (avast! self protection module, AVAST Software). Google query: aswsp.sys AVAST Software BAD_POOL_CALLER