You find out that the culprit is SVVAGENT.EXE, each time you open a new window it appears in the task manager and eats away at your CPU resources.  svvagent.exe is a java helper, don’t ask me what that means because in truth it’s more a problem than help.  So how do we remove this thing and make things normal again?  You can always uninstall Java although nothing would replace it since Windows doesn’t come with Java built-in (which means you yourself installed Java sometime in the past).  Or you can disable it!  You can disable Java and thus eliminate having Internet Explorer 8 run slow by going to the TOOLS >> INTERNET OPTIONS >> PROGRAMS >> MANAGE ADD-ONS.  Once there, wait for “Looking for tooblars and extensions” to finish then search for JAVA and disable it!  Voila you can finally go back to IE8 and use it normally!  But of course I still don’t know why a program as popular as Java would have such a glaring mistake.

So to the programmers of JAVA – shame on you!!!!

Check out these links for more information on how to solve the problem: (This is actually where I got my information)

1. byteblocks (they find the problem but don’t solve it)
2. windows7forums (a temporary but problematic solution is offered here)
3. dev.coma (scientifically finds svvagent.exe like what i did, and solves it by disabling the add-on, ingeniusly simple!)