Recently started to use IE 8 and noticed in Task Manager that when you exit tabs, the newly spawned iexplore.exe does not die and started to use bing to search for a solution and stumbled upon: http://blogs.msdn.com/askie/archive/2009/03/16/closing-an-ie-8-tab-does-not-immediately-close-the-spawned-iexplore-exe-process.aspx
being a developer I am, here is a powershell script I wrote to add the new key into registry:
cd 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main'
New-ItemProperty -path . -name TabShutdownDelay -type DWORD -value 60000
before you run that, type in:
get-itemproperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main'
to verify the registry key does not exists before running that powershell snippet.
