IE6 slower than IE5?

[Foster T]

I recently put together a small educational system
creating web pages via Microsoft Word (Word 2002).

I ran it on an old computer (PII 300mz Win98) with IE5 and
it ran just fine. This included pages that had about a
dozen med res pictures that were stored in a single
document and saved as a web page. These displayed very
fast.

I then up decided to upgrade to IE6 and I put it on the
computer and it was sluggish beyond belief. I figured that
IE6 was just too intensive to run well on a PII 300mz
under Win98.

I then tried running the exact same web pages on my P4
1.7gz WinXP system and it was also totally sluggish! I
went back to IE5 on the PII and everything worked great.

I can't believe that I can look at this simple html page
on a PII 300mz using IE5 and it zips right along and yet
my P4 1.7gz using IE6 acts like it is a 286 machine.

Any clue what is happening and how I handle as I don't
want to switch all my machines back to IE5??

 

[Climb On]

-----Original Message-----
I recently put together a small educational system
creating web pages via Microsoft Word (Word 2002).

I ran it on an old computer (PII 300mz Win98) with IE5 and
it ran just fine. This included pages that had about a
dozen med res pictures that were stored in a single
document and saved as a web page. These displayed very
fast.

I then up decided to upgrade to IE6 and I put it on the
computer and it was sluggish beyond belief. I figured that
IE6 was just too intensive to run well on a PII 300mz
under Win98.

I then tried running the exact same web pages on my P4
1.7gz WinXP system and it was also totally sluggish! I
went back to IE5 on the PII and everything worked great.

I can't believe that I can look at this simple html page
on a PII 300mz using IE5 and it zips right along and yet
my P4 1.7gz using IE6 acts like it is a 286 machine.

Any clue what is happening and how I handle as I don't
want to switch all my machines back to IE5??

.
Foster:

I too am having the same problem with my PIII 500 MHZ
machine. Please let me know what you find out.