If you are having performance issue with IE 8, follow this authors advice and
do the following:
From a Command Prompt window, run the following command:
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
That re-registers the ActiveX Interface Marshaling Library, an obscure DLL
that most people (even Microsoft experts) had never heard about. (Update:
27-Mar: Note that if you try this using Windows Vista, you must do this from an
elevated Command Prompt window; type cmd in the Start menu
Search box, right-click the Cmd.exe shortcut, and then choose Run As
Administrator. For detailed instructions with screen shots, see this post.) …The results
{ARE} stunning