I don't believe any of the "found" threads apply.
click on Favorites the screen immediately turns black. The taskbar remains visible. If I move cursor down to the IE "E" on the taskbar and select the IE (E) image that is black it either immediately returns the screen with the "Add to Favorites" option box or (after selecting the black option box a number of times) the screen is displayed with the "Add to Favorites" box. Clicking add works without a problem. But nothing seems to alleviate the problem.
My wife and I share the machine but she has not experienced the problem.
I didn't notice the problem until after I installed the updates I needed to install to allow me to install Windows 8.1 - particularly the Bing package.
Suggestions?
David Schrader
David (Whose retirement hasn't been as exciting as I was lead to believe.)