slow internet browsing

[matt]

Have windows xp home edition, with pentium 2.2 and 512 of
memory along with cable modem connection.
have problem surfing the net. webpages take a long to time
to load. This problem started several months ago.
try going to intenet options to clear history, delete
cookies, delete files. along with clearing forms and
passwords. This seem to help briefly to speed things up,
but within minutes any improvments vanish. thinking it may
be spyware causing the slowdown. i ran adware and
spysweeper to find and delete any. this did not help at
all. Have norton antivirius pro runing try disableing that
but still made no difference to increase my internet speed
surfing websites. also enable active x controls in
security but did not fix problem. have another computer
connected to same
internet provider through a router, this computer has
windows 2000 pro on it. webpages load very fast. So i know
its not my internet connection. Cannot use system restore
as it only goes back a month and this problem is several
months old.

any idea on how to fix browsing problem
have may cause extreme slow down loading webpages.

 

[XPUSER]

Have windows xp home edition, with pentium 2.2 and 512 of
memory along with cable modem connection.
have problem surfing the net. webpages take a long to time
to load. This problem started several months ago.
try going to intenet options to clear history, delete
cookies, delete files. along with clearing forms and
passwords. This seem to help briefly to speed things up,
but within minutes any improvments vanish. thinking it may
be spyware causing the slowdown. i ran adware and
spysweeper to find and delete any. this did not help at
all. Have norton antivirius pro runing try disableing that
but still made no difference to increase my internet speed
surfing websites. also enable active x controls in
security but did not fix problem. have another computer
connected to same
internet provider through a router, this computer has
windows 2000 pro on it. webpages load very fast. So i know
its not my internet connection. Cannot use system restore
as it only goes back a month and this problem is several
months old.

any idea on how to fix browsing problem
have may cause extreme slow down loading webpages.

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Control Panel | Internet Options | General tab

Delete all cookies
Delete all temporary internet files
(include all offline content)
Remove all Downloaded Program Files
To do that, you click on that "settings"
button and then click on the "View Objects"
button and then right click and choose remove
for all of them, if any, one at a time.
Some of them may not remove. Don't worry about that.
Close the Downloaded Program Files window,
Click OK to the Settings window.
Now clear History

Now click on the "Advanced" tab at the top
of Internet Options.
In the Browsing section, uncheck the box for
"Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)"
Click "Apply" and then "OK" at the bottom
of Internet Options
Close out of Control Panel

Browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc
Rename hosts to oldhosts

Restart the computer

Update Ad-Aware 6.0 Build 181
Click on "Scan Now"
Set Scanning Mode to "Use Custom Scanning Options"
Click on "Customize"
Click the 3 Red X's in here to change them to Green Check Marks
Click Proceed
Click Next
Once scanning is done click Next
Make sure all "New Objects" are checked
(Right click in the list and click on "Select all objects")
Click on Next and then OK to removing all objects
If you get a prompt that "Some objects could not be removed"
Click OK
Restart
Ad-Aware will scan again
Again remove any New Objects
Test the Internet browsing issue again

If not resolved, try scanning at:

Panda ActiveScan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

TrendMicro Houscall Anti Virus Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

HTH
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