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in just another one of many annoyances since i've upgraded to vista

ultimate, IE7 is taking enormous amounts of time to load up.

i've checked the task manager and neither the ram is exhausted or the

CPU's stressed, but when i say a long time, i'm talking sometimes 40

seconds to open the window and sometimes up to another 40 seconds to

open the page.



i'm aware that some of the load time for the pages is not vista or IE,

but i've another machine here that is about half the specs of this

one, uses XP home and the pages load up much faster, so i'm convinced

the problem is somewhere inside vista ultimate...



where might i start checking to see what the problem is?



i don't mind some wait, but at this point, it has become ridiculous to

wait this long for a webpage.

i might add that they don't always take this long, usually the initial

opening, but then on occasion pages within the normal course of

browsing will take this long. it can't be OK...


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I would check the speed of the connection. In the Network and Sharing

Center, click 'show status' Open IE and watch the byte count.



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<rtdavide@yahoo.com>wrote in message

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What sort of security software do you have installed - antivirus,

antispyware, firewall, etc? Do any other programs take a long time to

load? What other programs, if any, are you running at the same time as

IE?





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koch

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On Feb 15, 10:53=A0am, koch <koch.34u...@no-mx.forums.net>wrote:

1. Panda Titanium AV and Firewall...

the windows defender is on, windows firewall is not, since panda is

operating in it's place.



2. No other programs are as noticeably slowed as IE right now...



in a test to watch the byte count as Mark Ferguson suggested, i had

windows mail and skype open too....



sometimes IE will open up right away, but more often than not, it is

really slow.

in the latest test, the first attempt opened right away, the second

took over 2 minutes. and it was only my home page....

if it happened one in 20 attempts, i'd just accept it as an occasional

annoyance, but it happens 50-60% of the time, which is really

annoying.



as for the byte count, it seemed kind of obvious: nothing happening

for the entire time before the window opened and then slow activity

while i waited and a flurry right before the page loaded.



the problems honestly have started since i did the clean install of

vista ultimate. i had general slowness before with home premium, but

the entire system seems to have gotten glitchy with ultimate.

it seemed slightly worse after the tech at MS reset my permissions

during a fix.

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When you say "open up right away" are you refering to your homepage or

to IE itself loading on the desktop?





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koch

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On Feb 15, 12:55=A0pm, koch <koch.34u...@no-mx.forums.net>wrote:

both really. I am using a cable modem, and when i click on the IE

icon, it should open up and load the home page within a few seconds.

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If IE opens up on your desktop without delay, meaning that the progra

itself appears before you, then IE is technically loading just fine. I

it's just your homepage that isn't loading up in a timely fashion, the

it may only be the connection. I'm trying to isolate whether it's I

that's the problem or your connection.



Try setting your homepage to Google, exit IE, and then open it u

again. Does Google come up without delay



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koch

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<rtdavide@yahoo.com>wrote in message



...I am using a cable modem, and when i click on the IE

icon, it should open up and load the home page within a few seconds.



++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



FWIW, IE itself, on my Compaq laptop loads in about 3 seconds...



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On Feb 15, 2:44=A0pm, koch <koch.34u...@no-mx.forums.net>wrote:

On Feb 15, 2:44 pm, koch <koch.34u...@no-mx.forums.net>wrote:

i set IE to open to a blank page, here are the time results....

1st attempt: 3 sec.

2nd attempt: 40 sec

3rd attempt: 40 sec

4th attempt: 35 sec

5th attempt: 2 sec

6th attempt: 42 sec

7th attempt: 42 sec

8th attempt: 2 sec

9th attempt: 3 sec

10th attempt: 3 sec



there is no content to load at all just a call to open up IE. 50% of

the time it is a 40 second wait, the rest is what i would consider the

normal wait of a few seconds



now i'll set the home page to google:

first number is time to open browser window/ 2nd is time to load page

content

1st attempt: 40 sec. / 2 sec.

2nd attempt: 50 sec. / 2 sec.

3rd attempt: 2 sec. / 2 sec.

4th attempt: 40 sec. / 2 sec.

5th attempt: 42 sec. / 2 sec.

6th attempt: 2 sec. / 2 sec.

7th attempt: 40 sec. / 2 sec.

8th attempt: 42 sec. / 2 sec.

9th attempt: 2 sec. / 2 sec.

10th attempt: 40 sec. / 2 sec.



70%stalled IE load time, google opens without problem



now i'll set the home page to my usual myYahoo! page containing more

content than the Google:

first number is time to open browser window/ 2nd is time to load page

content

1st attempt: 42 sec. / 10 sec.

2nd attempt: 42 sec. / 8 sec.

3rd attempt: 2 sec. / 7 sec.

4th attempt: 42 sec. / 8 sec.

5th attempt: 42 sec. / 8 sec.

6th attempt: 42 sec. / 8 sec.

7th attempt: 42 sec. / 7 sec.

8th attempt: 42 sec. / 6 sec.

9th attempt: 42 sec. / 9 sec.

10th attempt: 2 sec. / 8 sec.



80% stalled IE load time



Now, I'm going to just do some typical browsing to test for content

load time.

first will be the time it took to load page, second is the page

2 sec. / google groups microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

7 sec. / skype forums

5 sec. / Newegg home page

5 sec. / wikipedia main page

13 sec. / ESPN Soccernet

10 sec. / BigSoccer newsgroup page

50 sec. / GQ US startpage [this opened within 5 but stalled loading

for about 40 sec]

3 sec. / Engrish.com

3 sec. / Youtube startpage

25 sec. / Sartorialist blog

2 sec. / google groups microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

2 sec. / thread within same group

4 sec. / my personal website

40 sec. / Fox Soccer

5 sec. / google maps



actually, other than 2 pages stalling, i have not been able to

duplicate the slowness loading pages that has been part of my regular

experience lately, but it has also been happening that even during

browsing pages get hung up for around 40 seconds.



for today, the extent of the problem seems to be IE.

i was a little surprised that the stall seems to be 40 seconds nearly

every time. i have only noticed that it took a while, but i have not

previously timed the startups.

but the regularity of the stall is suspicious.



any ideas now?

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Have you tried to run IE without Panda on? That is, shutting down the

processes associated with Panda and even disabling the Panda services

temporarily. I don't know what those services/processes are however -

look at the services list...



The fact that it's so random and IE sometimes loads in a few seconds,

would suggest something other than IE is causing the slowdown. And from

my experience, 95% of the time performance issues are AV/firewall

related.



Try disabling Panda services temporarily and reboot. Don't worry about

not having AV protection for this short period. You may want to turn

Vista's firewall on temporarily if your computer is not behind a router.

Then conduct the same sort of runs you did above.



Control Panel\System and Maintenance\Administrative Tools\Services





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koch

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On Feb 16, 9:07=A0am, koch <koch.34v...@no-mx.forums.net>wrote:

alright, i disabled Panda and sure enough IE loaded up right away 10

out of 10 attempts.

I guess the next bout of tech support is with Panda.



thanks

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