Problem with IE and Xp

[LouisG]

i have a problem with a machine i'm working on , any internet app
eg:email,icq,msn etc connects fine , but IE6 justs drags on and on , it
takes me about 5-8 minutes to go to microsoft.com.

any ideas as to why IE's acting this way???

thanks for in info forthcoming.

 

[Grant]

i have a problem with a machine i'm working on , any internet app
eg:email,icq,msn etc connects fine , but IE6 justs drags on and on , it
takes me about 5-8 minutes to go to microsoft.com.

any ideas as to why IE's acting this way???

thanks for in info forthcoming.

Probably IE is set to either automatically detect network settings, or use a
proxy server.

 

[LouisG]

Probably IE is set to either automatically detect network settings, or
use a proxy server.

Nope neither is set , just to add to my post ,, i've run a virus check
and a spyware check ,,, all cleaned up before posting the original note.

All other programs that aren't internet connected , games , office apps.
etc. run just great.

 

[K2]

Nope neither is set , just to add to my post ,, i've run a virus check
and a spyware check ,,, all cleaned up before posting the original note.

All other programs that aren't internet connected , games , office apps.
etc. run just great.

I've got the same problem. When I launch IE6 with SP1 (on XP with SP1
and all current updates), my CPU utilzation goes to 100%, with IE using
~95%. IE then becomes so slow as to be unusable. All other network
related apps are fine (Mozilla, Outlook, Thunderbird). I've run AdAware
and Norton - nothing. Obviously, when IE is running, everything else
slows to a crawl.
Any ideas?
Thx
-K2

 

[LouisG]

what i ended up doing was going into safe mode and running the antivirus
and spyware software in all the accounts ,, this seemed to fix it up as
they found quite a bit more than was found in running in normal mode

 

[Please reply to news group.]

That's because IE stinks. Use Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) or Netscape
(http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp) It usually works
great, except for the occasional poorly-written site that only shows up
correctly in IE. Even Adobe Reader 6, which says it only runs on IE,
runs on Netscape and Mozilla.