ie7 very unresponsive

[Robert Serna]

Hi there,
We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
minute for the next page to load, and so on.
Other applications like Office 2007, QB, work fine.
I have loaded FireFox and it works fine.
I would like to uninstall ie7 and then load it again but I cannot find
where to do that. Or is there something else I should look into?
ALmost forgot, antivirus is provided by McAffee and I have tried
disabling the personal protection, anti hacker etc. and No difference.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Oldtech]

Hi there,
We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...

Perfectly runs Ubuntu, much faster, without any DRM, immune to ALL the
Microsoft virus malware, so, no need to run any AV apps!!

A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
minute for the next page to load, and so on.

Best to just run Firefox, much better in the tabbed browsing, more
mature, less opportunity for exploits...

Other applications like Office 2007, QB, work fine.

But, all those also have total registry access!
"DANGER, Will Robinson! Alien Invaders!"

I have loaded FireFox and it works fine.

OK! One for the good guys!

I would like to uninstall ie7 and then load it again but I cannot find
where to do that. Or is there something else I should look into?

Run the uninstaller? Ignore the biatch!

ALmost forgot, antivirus is provided by McAffee and I have tried
disabling the personal protection, anti hacker etc. and No difference.
Any help would be appreciated.

Grab Grifsoft.com AVG instead, as it is the premiere AV program, and is
FREE!

Then, you really should grab these, FREE:
CrapCleaner, run at least once a week.
Spybot S&D
Lavasoft Adaware
hijackthis
shootthemessenger

They only slow the system a small amount, much less than hosting 1723
different trojans, virus, malware worms would.

The better option is to grab a liveCDrom of http://www.mepis.org and let
your system run from ramdisk. instant reboot goes back to running
Windoze on the harddrive.

 

[Guest]

Hi there,
We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
minute for the next page to load, and so on.

1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
Temporary Internet Files: Delete
2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
of page

 

[Robert Serna]

1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
Temporary Internet Files: Delete
2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
of page

Thank you, I had tried that already and it behaves the same, that's why
I was thinking of somehow uninstalling ie and then loading it again.

 

[Robert Serna]

1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
Temporary Internet Files: Delete
2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
of page

Thanks,
I tried that and IE crashed.
Got an error message that said the program is not working and had to be
restarted.

Is there a way of uninstalling IE7, so that I can reload it?