Fixing the problem of memory could not be read on IE8

When IE8 was released, I went ahead and installed it in all my machines at home and at work. In one of my machines at work, I started to get an annoying memory error message whenever I would close the browser or sometimes while browsing. The error message was the following:

“The instruction at "0x749860a0" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. ”

Today we had a presentation from a Program Manager of the IE group and I asked him about this error after he finished. What he told me is that usually is an add-on that is causing the issue. So he suggested me to go to Tools –> Manage Add-ons, select all add-ons and click on Disable all. Close the browser, reopen and close it again. If the message box disappears (in my case it did), I’d know that is one of the add-ons that was causing the issue.

Adding back one add-on at a time (closing, reopening and closing again after I enabled each one to see if the message would show up) , I was able to find some culprits. ;-)

I hope this helps!