IE 6.0.2900 - Slow Starting

[Clinton Fitch III]

Group,

I'm experiencing a curious problem on serveral PCs with the new IE in
Service Pack 2 and want to see if I am the only one experiencing the
problem.

Upon starting IE, it takes several seconds to download and/or draw the first
web page. It does not matter if this page is a locally cached paged, a
local page on the PC itself or out on the web. Further, when it is in the
10-odd second limbo, you are unable to click in the address bar and change
URLs. After this startup phase however, IE acts normally and is very
snappy.

Finally, if I have one IE windows open and open a second, this second
instance does not experience the same delay.

I've cleared cache obviously and have tried multiple start pages as well.

Again, my post really is to see if I'm alone on this. I suspect I am -
probably some sort of plug-in issue - but wanted to verify just the same.

Thanks,

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Group,

I'm experiencing a curious problem on serveral PCs with the new IE in
Service Pack 2 and want to see if I am the only one experiencing the
problem.

Upon starting IE, it takes several seconds to download and/or draw the first
web page. It does not matter if this page is a locally cached paged, a
local page on the PC itself or out on the web. Further, when it is in the
10-odd second limbo, you are unable to click in the address bar and change
URLs. After this startup phase however, IE acts normally and is very
snappy.

I had this on 2K with IE5 - in the end I turned off the Enable third-party
browser add-ons in the advanced settings in IE, never came back. I believe
it was a plugin that was searching my hard disk when IE was first going to a
URL, never did nail exactly what component caused it.

Dan

 

[Guest]

Daniel,

Thanks - this solved my problem as well. I am still working down the
culprit in the "Internet Options, Programs, Manage Add-ons" and
disabling/enabling programs to isolate the program(s) that are quilty.

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