Good day everybody, after a lot fiddling around and a lot swearing, found out what was stopping IE from working. Some verification link popup from IOit (speedbit). Uninstalling it made all work again. Its strange, never had any problems with build 9860, but this time it did. Seems that since IE11 comes bundled with 8/8.1 its very sensitive. Found out you can't unistall it. You can enable or disable it.
Cheers, Jim