I am having this same problem with the combination of Windows 8.1 and IE 11. IE crashes as soon as you first try to load a page. This computer was restored to a fresh Windows 8 install yesterday. All updates and Windows 8.1 were applied. Added some tools and Avast. Not much reason to look for other interactions.

I ran >sfc /scannow
“Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.”

This is the IE error from the Event Viewer:
Log Name: Application
Source: Windows Error Reporting
Date: 2/3/2014 10:41:45 PM
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Inspiron_5520
Description:
Fault bucket -352141996, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: IEXPLORE.EXE
P2: 11.0.9600.16384
P3: 52157231
P4: StackHash_c1dd
P5: 6.3.9600.16408
P6: 523d45fa
P7: c0000374
P8: PCH_A0_FROM_ntdll+0x0003C1AC
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\WER9B38.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_IEXPLORE.EXE_70dca0deeb12453456ad76fda9d476a78f6518c_ee6b83ed_0a59cc89

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 9eb431d2-8d56-11e3-be75-84a6c8bc19d8
Report Status: 16
Hashed bucket: 23a2966c3c51d601fed74e5a1673bfd2
Event Xml:



1001
4
0
0x80000000000000

2259
Application
Inspiron_5520



-352141996
1
APPCRASH
Not available
0
IEXPLORE.EXE
11.0.9600.16384
52157231
StackHash_c1dd
6.3.9600.16408
523d45fa
c0000374
PCH_A0_FROM_ntdll+0x0003C1AC





C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\WER9B38.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_IEXPLORE.EXE_70dca0deeb12453456ad76fda9d476a78f6518c_ee6b83ed_0a59cc89


0
9eb431d2-8d56-11e3-be75-84a6c8bc19d8
16
23a2966c3c51d601fed74e5a1673bfd2