It Takes Awhile for my Homepage to show

[James]

Since we have some very intelligent people here concerning Windows XP,
I think you
can help me. When I turn on my laptop computer and double click
internet explorer, it
takes awhile for my homepage to appear, and I`m on a cable hook-up, and
use Google as my homepage. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
James

 

[Tom Willett]

Have you tried asking the experts in the IE newsgroups?

 

[James]

Have you tried asking the experts in the IE newsgroups?

No I hadn`t Tom, but thanks for the suggestion, maybe I should do that.

James

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi James,

If it's just the initial loading of IE and your home page, that simply
indicates the program was not preloaded into memory at system startup. The
first time it will take longer to initialize and load the first page. As
well, there may be other startup routines that have not completed and are
occupying system resources. If the behavior continues into subsequent pages
loading, then I would suspect a plug-in as the problem.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[James]

Hi James,

If it's just the initial loading of IE and your home page, that simply
indicates the program was not preloaded into memory at system startup. The
first time it will take longer to initialize and load the first page. As
well, there may be other startup routines that have not completed and are
occupying system resources. If the behavior continues into subsequent pages
loading, then I would suspect a plug-in as the problem.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org


As
well, there may be other startup routines that have not completed and are
occupying system resources.

You`re right Rick, It does ok after the homepage downloads, but at the
start
I do have MSN Messenger,McAfee and Desktop Weather start up.

Thanks
James

 

[Glen]

You might find getting rid of McAfee helps. There are free alternatives.
I've seen McAfee casue some fairly horendous slowdowns. The other thing to
look at is how much ram memory you have. If you only have 256 MB you will
probably find there is a lot of data swapping\paging, it depends on how many
open programs you have.

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