Name: Stuart Mundye (by smundye) Date: April 18, 2008 at 17:35:10 Pacific Subject: Slow opening new Internet window OS: Win2000 Pro SP4 CPU/Ram: P4 3.2Ghz / 2GB
Comment:
Hello Folks.
System has been running well for about 6 years but for the last three days I've been having a problem.
Opening a new window in IE6 takes between 3 and 4 minutes for it to load. Re-using an already open window is no problem.
Have re-installed IE6, ensured no viruses or spyware etc. but no improvement.
Clear all cookies and browser cache and try again. IE uses a lot of harddisk space for caching, up to several hundred MBs. You should also optimize such settings.
I'm having the same problem on 2 PCs (work laptop and home desktop), both running IE6 w/Win2000. I have a suspicion it's Win2000 Hotfix KB944533, which I downloaded to both in mid-April -- which is when the problem surfaced.
maybe that this Hotfix is the reason for it. You know, IE is a big part of the Windows OS. So every Hotfix for Windows could influence IE and vice versa. The best solution is to don't use IE for internet browsing and it's mostly more secure.
Good to know. I never installed an additional Toolbars. Because you never know, what they are doing in background and what data will be transfered to the google server. I my opinion such Toolbars are additional security risks.
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