Windows Vista Random stuff not loading via IE

I have no idea what I have done but this will be a field day.
IE randomly picks to load some stuff while other things it wont load.
A few examples here. I tried to load webroot's website and it wont load I cant load most forums SMF forums being one of them havent tried many others but it wont load most forums.
It did however load proboards without any trouble so I thought it might be loading cgi fine but wasnt loading php fine so I hit another website with cgi and it wouldnt load the website I used was byond.com I dont know how to even go about narrowing this issue down.

I know already its not a virus and its not spyware of any kind its just something that got damaged.... As to what I have no idea.

I did a view source on a page that wasnt loading and sure enough all the information is there its just being displayed.

Edit: I did a bit of searching and it seems eraser ran over night to free up unused space. With that being said I think it damaged a file used by IE I attempted to do a system restore but it seems eraser has cleared all of them too so that leaves me with one of three options that I can see run a windows update and hope it will fix the issue/ remove IE best I can and do a fresh install of it/ format the computer...
Anyone have ideas?

 

I would run SFC............
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2231/vista_run_system_file_checker/

mickzer.

 

Ya I was going to run that right now I tried using the windows update option before the sfc though and after that it all seems to work now so I dont know what the hell was going on because I didnt update to the new version of IE or anything and I already did a reboot so no idea still going to run the sfc for the hell of it and see what I get.

Anyway I fixed it so thank you for the input and the help.

 

You don't know what you did to break it.
You don't know what you did to fix it.
You just gotta love Windows, don't you?

mickzer.

 

I like the first idea, go to installed updates, remove IE 8, and then reinstall it. If that doesnt work, you can try running a repair installation of windows , which might work, cuz IE is fully integrated in windows. Its worth a shot I guess