SharePoint Portal does not render properly in Internet Explorer or Internet Explorer Crashes for SharePoint Portal

Portal does not render the content pages properly, although the master page is coming quite well.

We tried bunch of things, like setting the IE to default settings, looking into the logs, Javascript Error and so on.

What worked is starting the Internet Explorer in safe mode ....

Click Start > Run > iexplore -extoff


Update:

Internet Explorer Crashes, when clicking on items in the document library.

This generally occurs, when we update office from 2003 to office 2007, or lets say downgrade office 2007 to office 2003 or some other office 2007/2003 related installs.

Either use
Click Start > Run > iexplore -extoff

or apply the following patch if possible

Microsoft Hotfix link




If this wouldn't have solved the issue, I would have rather started the client machine Operating System in Safe Mode, so that only basic components are loaded and anything customized or configured because of the other applications are not loaded.