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Name: Stuart Mundye (by smundye)
Date: April 18, 2008 at 17:35:10 Pacific
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.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Regards

Stuart



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Response Number 1
Name: paulsep
Date: April 18, 2008 at 19:34:22 Pacific
Reply:

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.


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Response Number 2
Name: Stuart Mundye (by smundye)
Date: April 20, 2008 at 11:59:49 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for reply Paul.

Alas, your suggestions come under the heading of "etc" in my original post. Maybe I should have been more explicit.

This one really has me flummoxed.

Regards

Stuart


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Response Number 3
Name: mattm
Date: May 1, 2008 at 08:13:33 Pacific
Reply:

Paul,

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.

Matt


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Response Number 4
Name: paulsep
Date: May 1, 2008 at 08:40:31 Pacific
Reply:

Matt,

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.


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Response Number 5
Name: mattm
Date: May 1, 2008 at 10:31:24 Pacific
Reply:

Paul,

I just fixed it on one PC and am thrilled!!

I found a link suggesting I re-install Google toolbar... that alone did it. I never uninstalled the Hotfix.

Matt


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Response Number 6
Name: Stuart Mundye (by smundye)
Date: May 1, 2008 at 20:15:32 Pacific
Reply:

Matt, thanks a million for that.

I've just uninstalled the Google toolbar and my Internet is back to normal operating speed.

Regards

Stuart


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Response Number 7
Name: paulsep
Date: May 2, 2008 at 12:37:32 Pacific
Reply:

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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Response Number 8
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland)
Date: May 19, 2008 at 17:31:09 Pacific
Reply:

^^agreed.
I hate the damn things.

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Response Number 9
Name: Diebloem
Date: August 7, 2008 at 00:22:05 Pacific
Reply:

Greetings everyone

I am astonished that no-one suggested switching to Firefox.

It is smaller, faster and with all the add-ons available much safer.
Recommended are: Addblock Plus, No-script, Flash-Block.
There are hundreds of others available.

Try it, you’ll like it.

Kind regards


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Response Number 10
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland)
Date: September 24, 2008 at 05:38:26 Pacific
Reply:

Lol, I love people who bitch about IE's so called 'lack of security', and yet, they suggest we all download Firefox and install a million addons to perform features which IE and even mostly Opera has native. Security Zones, GPO's, restriction options, etc.

So it's obviously more secure to install a third party product and pile on loads more third party bits of software. Great, cool, whatever.

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Toshiba T2130CT
Macintosh Performa 450

All working wonderfully.


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