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I have Windows XP SP3, and I decided to install Internet Explorer 8 last
week. It installed fine, and I used it for a week, but my desktop UI speed
had become NOTICEABLY sluggish: when I move windows around, there would be a
white "lag" behind them, similar to turning on "mouse trails" for your
cursor. It acted like I had disabled video acceleration. Also, YouTube
videos were jittery and my CPU utilization was very high while watching.
Thinking it may have been outdated NVidia drivers, I downloaded and
installed the latest release from NVidia's web site, but the situation did
not improve.
I've searched the web and the newsgroups and cannot find anyone with a
similar problem; I found some people complained about sluggish WEB PAGES with
IE8, but my issue is not that web pages are slow to load, but specifically
it's a problem with my GUI rendering speed.
Anyway, this morning I uninstalled IE8, rebooted, and now my GUI speed is
back to normal (fast) -- I can move windows around without trails -- so it is
obviously something with Internet Explorer 8.
My system specs:
Dell 400SC
Pentium-4 HT 2.8GHz single core
3 GB memory
NVidia GeForce 7600 GS 512MB AGP 8X, driver version 185.85
Dual LCD monitors
Windows XP SP3 with all high-priority updates
Thoughts? Anyone?
week. It installed fine, and I used it for a week, but my desktop UI speed
had become NOTICEABLY sluggish: when I move windows around, there would be a
white "lag" behind them, similar to turning on "mouse trails" for your
cursor. It acted like I had disabled video acceleration. Also, YouTube
videos were jittery and my CPU utilization was very high while watching.
Thinking it may have been outdated NVidia drivers, I downloaded and
installed the latest release from NVidia's web site, but the situation did
not improve.
I've searched the web and the newsgroups and cannot find anyone with a
similar problem; I found some people complained about sluggish WEB PAGES with
IE8, but my issue is not that web pages are slow to load, but specifically
it's a problem with my GUI rendering speed.
Anyway, this morning I uninstalled IE8, rebooted, and now my GUI speed is
back to normal (fast) -- I can move windows around without trails -- so it is
obviously something with Internet Explorer 8.
My system specs:
Dell 400SC
Pentium-4 HT 2.8GHz single core
3 GB memory
NVidia GeForce 7600 GS 512MB AGP 8X, driver version 185.85
Dual LCD monitors
Windows XP SP3 with all high-priority updates
Thoughts? Anyone?