ie7 vista went away

Vista detected everything in my computer very well, and I was running dual boot (XP on C, Vista on D). Today I was looking around the Media Center, the guide, live TV, everything worked very well.
I closed that down and went to IE7 and "broke Vista" (well, the IE part of it). I got a pure white screen, white URL bar, which would end up as "program not responding" and Vista's attempts to fix didn't work. Sadly, no restore points, that probably would have helped (you can't have Vista restore points on a dual-boot setup, correct?)
All attempts to use IE7 resulted in the same white screen o' death, 50-60% nearly constant CPU usage. With no system restore I relucantly took Vista off my machine thinking that most likely a reinstall would be the only thing that would help.
Is there a known IE7 workaround, or is it just too early to tell? I enjoyed seeing the Vista interface anyway.
Thanks for any advice, guess I might just have no Vista before January ;(
Bill Halvorsen

This is not a legitimate workaround but it did the trick for me. I experienced the EXACT same problem as you have posted. Shut down ALL security options and IE7 will probably work O.K. This was my experience, anyway. Shut down - Microsoft Defender, Firewall, and User Account Control. You will have to contend with a popup message when opening IE7. It will instruct you to click on the " Home " icon for further operation of the browser but it works fine thereafter. Give it a shot ! ............................John.
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Vista detected everything in my computer very well, and I was running dual boot (XP on C, Vista on D). Today I was looking around the Media Center, the guide, live TV, everything worked very well.
I closed that down and went to IE7 and "broke Vista" (well, the IE part of it). I got a pure white screen, white URL bar, which would end up as "program not responding" and Vista's attempts to fix didn't work. Sadly, no restore points, that probably would have helped (you can't have Vista restore points on a dual-boot setup, correct?)
All attempts to use IE7 resulted in the same white screen o' death, 50-60% nearly constant CPU usage. With no system restore I relucantly took Vista off my machine thinking that most likely a reinstall would be the only thing that would help.
Is there a known IE7 workaround, or is it just too early to tell? I enjoyed seeing the Vista interface anyway.
Thanks for any advice, guess I might just have no Vista before January ;(
Bill Halvorsen