Thanks everyone. I think I'll give it a shot. BTW I see on other posts that IE needs loads of patches etc. When you switched to Chrome did you uninstall Explorer?
No; you don't need to uninstall IE to install Chrome. In fact, uninstalling IE is almost impossible as it is so tighly integrated into Windows. Typically, Windows utilities will allow you to downgrade to a previous version e.g [broken link removed]