How many favorites can you have in Internet explorer

[tracymar55]

I do research on the Internet and have 22,000 favorites in Internet
explorer. The past few days IE started to crash constantly. I have to
start it about 4 times before it will be stable (I'm still using IE 6,
have been too anxious about upgrading to upgrade to 7). Could my large
number of favorites be a reason for the crash? I don't want to reduce
the number since I use at least 100 of them a day, from many different
folders, and it's too time-consuming to keep exporting and importing
them.

Do you think my large number of favorites are the reason for the
crashes?

Can anyone tell me if IE 7 is more stable?

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tracy

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I do research on the Internet and have 22,000 favorites in Internet
explorer. The past few days IE started to crash constantly. I have to
start it about 4 times before it will be stable (I'm still using IE 6,
have been too anxious about upgrading to upgrade to 7). Could my large
number of favorites be a reason for the crash?

Clear the TIF folder, clear all cookies and scan the system for malware,
especially for spyware. If this doesn't help, repost to this group:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Can anyone tell me if IE 7 is more stable?

Not really since updates are not meant to fix home-made problems (see
the measures above).