IE has become EXTREMELY slow

[AnjanM]

Hello:

I recently started experiencing problems with IE 6.0
becoming very very slow. I have a moderately fast machine
(P2-700MHz, 128MB ram). Also, the Task Manager now seems
to indicate that the processes are using more than 140MB
of moemory. I suspect some of the processes that are
running are illegitimate. If so, is there a way for me to
figure out and eliminate them. Also, the home page of IE
seems to get reset to a fixed site every time I log in,
even though I set it to a differnt one (using the Internet
Options menu) everytime.

Any help or direction is much appreciate. I'm at my wits
end!

Thanks,
Anjan

 

[mac]

Hello:

I recently started experiencing problems with IE 6.0
becoming very very slow. I have a moderately fast machine
(P2-700MHz, 128MB ram). Also, the Task Manager now seems
to indicate that the processes are using more than 140MB
of moemory. I suspect some of the processes that are
running are illegitimate. If so, is there a way for me to
figure out and eliminate them. Also, the home page of IE
seems to get reset to a fixed site every time I log in,
even though I set it to a differnt one (using the Internet
Options menu) everytime.

Any help or direction is much appreciate. I'm at my wits
end!

Thanks,
Anjan

First eliminate any spyware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm