I'm using IE8 and an older version of IE7 Pro (version 2.4.6) and have no shutdown issue.
I'm interested to know are you using IE8 on XP? If so have you noticed any problems? I have read many reports of IE8 messing up on XP? I recently up graded a machine to Windows 7 and IE8 runs very snappy on there.
Just to let you know Anomaly, I have had no problems using IE8 on XP.
Thanks and good to hear because after using IE8 on Windows 7 I would like to add it to my XP computer since that computer will not be getting a Windows 7 update.
Did you download IE8 through Windows Update or did you download it from the IE8 site and install that way? Did you do anything different in your install?