Other option to check is your graphics card driver, hardware acceleration settings, and directX, all of which affect screen draw
times
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"Philip Herlihy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:bo5up6$5bj$(E-Mail Removed)...
| Running Norton 2003. Tried disabling it - didn't make any difference. I
| ran disk cleanup and also Norton Clean Sweep. That did seem to make it draw
| slightly differently, but still slow, and I suspect it's because Clean Sweep
| nags you to close all browsers first. I now think that it gets slower to
| draw (note that there seems to be no network activity) the more times the
| browser has been asked to redraw, until it takes about 10 seconds to redraw
| on resize. Nor does there seem to be much sign of disk activity, so it's
| not fetching that tiny gif over and over. Weird. This only happens with a
| handful of sites - all ones which use tiled tiny gifs. Can I be the only
| one to get this effect? It takes just as long with my broadband connection
| disconnected and the same screen simply resized Normal-Window >> Full
| Screen, so it's an in-memory thing.
|
| I've also tried Mozilla, which loads like lightening, Netscape 7, which is
| also pretty fast, and Opera 7, which seems to render quickly but reliably
| crashes on (only) this site!
|
| Something's going on...
|
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| ## PH, London ##
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|
| jaf wrote:
| > Hi Phil,
| > Takes about 80 seconds with my dialup connection.
| > I shouldn't think it would be more than 5 seconds on your connection.
| >
| > What are you running for anti-virus s/w?
| > You might want to run disk cleanup and empty all temp folders.
| >
| >
| >
| > "Philip Herlihy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
| > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
| >> Some sites are almost impossibly slow to use (e.g.
www.comcast.net)
| >> because the background draws so slowly even on my 2GHz laptop, which
| >> has a 1920 x 1200 screen. Processor utilisation reaches 100%.
| >>
| >> I've spotted the common link - these sites have backgrounds which
| >> are tiny gifs, (less than 50 bytes) repeated ad nauseam. Obviously,
| >> my large screen will need a lot of them to fill it, but if I open
| >> the site in FrontPage, it renders almost instantly. If I open the
| >> site online in Mozilla, it also renders immediately.
| >>
| >> Why is it so slow in IE6 (SP1)? Is there some caching problem which
| >> can be fixed by changing a setting somewhere? Glad of any advice!
| >>
| >>
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| >> ## PH, London ##
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