Quote Originally Posted by Zenobia View Post
I don't understand.Maybe I'm not getting your meaning by your post,but I've never known for IE8 to add bad entries to the Hosts file.
It's not about bad or duplicate entries. I was referring to awa413's mentioning that adding hosts file entries causes IE8 to take a long time to open. It was a known problem with large hosts file that KB969897 (circa April 2009) addressed. If that update is missing in XP, the problem would still manifest itself.