expanding favourites in IE

[Guest]

help please. i recently had to reformat my pc. In IE 6, when i click on the
favourites button, my favourites appear on my left (panel). And when i click
on any folder to expand, it would open immediately. Now, when i click to
expand a folder, it takes ages....like 20 seconds.

I know this isnt normal and there are at times when i'm in a rush to go on a
site thats in my favourites, i find myself waiting and waiting till the
folder finally decides to open. This is the same with all my folders in my
favourites.


Help appreciated.

 

[Guest]

I forgot to mention, i have XP Home, SP1, and I.E. 6 if it helps.

ta

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

What other software is running on your system? Have you tried disabling
everything else, except for firewall, to see if an improvement can be noted?

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[Guest]

I'm not sure what else i'm supposed to disable. I only have java, my
firewall, and my antivirus. It happens when i have nothing else running like
programs etc. I can expand the folders immediately as normal when not
connected to the net. But once i connect and try to open the folders, i have
to wait. I sometimes have to click several times and just wait. It is getting
quite annoying now as i use my favourites a lot. Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Alex,

Forgive me Alex, but I would have thought "everything else, except firewall"
is quite descriptive. Did you try disabling your antivirus to see if that
fixes your problem.

I suspect that something is taking up a lot of CPU cycles when you are
online that is dormant when you are offline - do you have anything at all?
Web accelerators?

Check for malware:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html

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