How about giving the Mozilla Firefox browser a try?

you can still have IE too- but it will just give you a second browser to use for just these kinds of things.

It's free, secure and I will say as far as loading webpages- much faster on firefox than IE- at least on my machine anyway.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

all you do is download it & save it where you can find it - then double click the saved file to install it
- it will ask if you want to import settings, bookmarks etc from IE- it will make desktop icons for you {or ask if you want them}
follow the prompts till finished.

To use it instead of IE just double click the icon and give it a try.