IE8 surfing at a snails pace

[sunny staines]

Tried IE8 for the first time [final build] and was opening pages and links like a slow motion snails race. my temp solution was to hit the ie7 comp button i would then get a white page but then hitting the F5 refresh button gave me the page instantly.

 

Since then I found a tip change the home page to microsofts homelive.com and the pages open quickly but do not know why.

 

still stuck with new tabs opening slowly anyone got an answer to this please.

 

It seems some have found IE8 is very fast while other have very slow speeds.

[sunny staines]

13 seconds down to 4 for opening new tabs

 

been spending hours re slow ie8, some have it fast some slow so it must be a clash

 

smartscreen filter disable that and links seem slightly faster.

 

if you have norton and the phising protection keeps getting disabled causing you to hit the fix button for repair contact free norton live chat support for free upgrade to the end of your current licence.

 

I went to manage add-ons via the tools menu and one by one disabled and re started ie8 the offending program was the free very useful "speedbit" used for speeding up download of video clips.

 

others made no difference [these were java, adobe, ie7pro, google,onenote, norton, spybot]

 

hope this may help some other if you do not have speedbit follow same method re add-ons.

[Valuater]

All I can say is Windows 7 better be pretty damn good because Vista was a flop and IE8 isn't sounding so great either.

 

While Apple has been on-it having IPhone with available applications for it and the introduction of the thin computer, and their operating system now includes windows programs.

 

They seem to be the inovators now.

 

Valuater

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[sunny staines]

Valuater

 

hoping M.S. get on to this quickly otherwise MS explorer will be history within a year, not looking good for windows 7 as you say.

[Half Breed]

New Here

 

I just DL'ed IE8 and know my comp is terribly slow also. Thried to do a system restore and of course I't said no changes have been maid. I would love to go back to 7, cause 8 is terrible. Just had to sound off, Sorry!

[Valuater]

Come to think of it... I did a beta test for IE8 and it wouldn't log in to many of my sites... I removed it the same day!

 

I'm not against MS, I just think they have lost their way!!..??

 

Valuater

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[Half Breed]

Pretty Bad

 

That was a case of pretty bad spelling in my first post sorry. Can or how do I get rid od IE8 and go back to IE7? Thanks for any help.

[Valuater]

That was a case of pretty bad spelling in my first post sorry. Can or how do I get rid od IE8 and go back to IE7? Thanks for any help.

 

In Windows XP Press....

 

Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Windows Internet Explorer 8

 

Click "Uninstall.. But be sure to Re-install IE7 from Microsoft

( there may be an option to restore IE7 )

 

This is the link

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ie7/

 

Good Luck

 

Valuater

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[sunny staines]

If not shown in add/remove programs click show updates and it will appear.

[Half Breed]

Thanks

 

Thanks, I Just found this Forum but when I did I knew I would find the help I needed. I belong to several Truck forums and the people there are always ready to help so I figured the same was true for here. Once again thanks for the assistance.

[sunny staines]

the solution

 

found this posted on another forum and it works in Vista [not sure about xp]

 

Start prompt……type cmd

Right click cmd.exe

Choose run as administrator

Type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

Press enter

Restart pc

[Valuater]

Thanks, I Just found this Forum but when I did I knew I would find the help I needed. I belong to several Truck forums and the people there are always ready to help so I figured the same was true for here. Once again thanks for the assistance.

 

Glad we could help... :)

 

Valuater

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[Djsrodeo1]

IE8 Slowness

 

Basically unless you are running at least 2 gig of memory your gonna be slow in my opion