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Internet Explorer 6 Problems
« on: October 06, 2002, 03:39:57 PM »
I have just started having problems with Internet Explorer. In the last few days it began becoming really slow to pop up after clicking on the IE icon on the desktop. It took about 30 secs to load. Now its not doing anything when clicks on. Once a window is open the net speed is standard - 56K - and if you click on a link which opens another window it comes up fine - the problem is with the intial loading of IE. Its got to such an extent that - whilst connected to the internet - I cannot open any window (My computer, my docs or anything). The mouse shows the loading time thing and then nothing. But once I've disconnected from the net all the things I clicked on suddenly appear. I have recently installed 2 updates from the "windows update" thing which were tiny files to fix small security holes. I have also tried uninstalling IE 6 and then re-installing it but this, if anything, made it worse.

I would really appriciate help on this as its a pretty major concern.

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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2002, 04:20:21 PM »
DEFRAG, and check what proccesses are running and try to decrease the clutter, and chek for virii
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2002, 04:36:52 PM »
I'll defrag and then run a scanner - in that order?. The P.C's fairly clear of junk. Its got about 15 gigs of info on it but most of its software and games. I have avoided downloading any dodgy programs onto this machines so as to keep it clean and in working order. I guess I could look around - although I usually end up causing more problems  deleting things when tidying then if I just left it (My last 'tidy' I wiped half a dive off and winsok32.dll as well as a few others. This resulted in the gradual decay of the drive as bits got lost and broken and ended up in a complete re-install of the OS and full formatt of the drive  :oops: )
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2002, 05:35:09 PM »
defrag, then scan. it doesn't really matter in what order except if you defragged first it would be faster...

go to

start>>>run

and type in "msconfig" then go to "startup" and uncheck things that YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, but don't want them, don't uncheck anything that you don't know what it is.
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2002, 08:21:39 AM »
Ack. I finally fixed it. It was - I think - MSBB.exe. I have no idea where I got this from but after downloading AD-Aware, running it and deleting the 108 ad prgrams on the computer the problem left. I also tidied up the start menu which has speed up the intial boot up time.

Thanks for the help,

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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2002, 07:20:45 AM »
That's awesome dude. Glad you finally fixed it!



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