I know how people love to hate AOL and I do not normally use it as my Web browser. The reason I'm using it is because IE8 is, for reasons yet undetermined, once opened is refusing to really close. In addition to that, IE8 sucks up memory.
For example, I am now on AOL through the resident software. I opened IE8. Two iexplore.exe lines came up in Task Manager showing 00 under the CPU column under the Processes tab. I then closed IE8. Both lines in Task Manager are still there except now under the CPU column it shows 50 and the CPU usage is going between 50-52%. If I open IE8 again, two more iexplore.exe lines open in Task Manager with the original two still open and 50% CPU usage. Now I've closed IE8 again and I have two lines of iexplore.exe showing 50 and CPU usage has jumped 100%. Using Task Manager, I now end the processes to regain efficient use of my machine.
If not for having figured out that this phenom does on affect AOL, I would really be at a disadvantage. Right now, amazing to say, my resident AOL is the hero and the only way I can conveniently be on line.