performance of IE7 under Vista

[let]

I have been running IE7 under XP for a month and it's been painfully
slow, virus scan takes four times as long and audio playback jitters.
Does IE7 work properly under the final release of Vista or does the
whining about peformance in the IE7 group also apply to Vista?

 

[Will]

I've had no problems with it running on vista.
But I guess it's all related to the overall performance of your system, I'm
sure you'll find complaints about IE7 here too.

 

[Dr. Heywood Floyd]

Very interesting how you offer three issues you have with IE7 and then
call it "whining".

When did boldly stating fact(s) become whining?

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

1) Reduce the size of your IE cache to 50 to 150 Meg at the most. I'm
betting, if you check, it'll be a Gig or more, far too large for IE to
handle.

<historical info> IE used to set cache size to a percentage of disk size.
With the advent of larger disks, that cache has gotten so large as to be
unuseable. IE7 reduces the size of the cache to a more manageable level in
most circumstances. </historical info>

2) Do not use the "automatically" option for checking for new versions of
Web pages. It has always been buggy and will *always* lead to IE failing in
the way you describe eventually.

3) After emptying your cache and reducing its size, run a defrag
of your system in safe mode.

If that doesn't work, work through the troubleshooting advice here:
http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#tsie

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Blog:
http://www.msmvps.com/spywaresucks
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[Alias]

1) Reduce the size of your IE cache to 50 to 150 Meg at the most. I'm
betting, if you check, it'll be a Gig or more, far too large for IE to
handle.

<historical info> IE used to set cache size to a percentage of disk size.
With the advent of larger disks, that cache has gotten so large as to be
unuseable. IE7 reduces the size of the cache to a more manageable level in
most circumstances. </historical info>

2) Do not use the "automatically" option for checking for new versions of
Web pages. It has always been buggy and will *always* lead to IE failing in
the way you describe eventually.

3) After emptying your cache and reducing its size, run a defrag
of your system in safe mode.

If that doesn't work,

go to www.mozilla.com/firefox and download a real browser.

Alias

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Sorry Al, you're not classed as fresh meat anymore - your reposte only works
the first dozen or so times, then we start yawning )

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Blog:
http://www.msmvps.com/spywaresucks
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[JD]

Instead of "Automatically," which option do you recommend for checking for
new versions of Web pages? Thanks.

 

[Alias]

Sorry Al, you're not classed as fresh meat anymore - your reposte [sic] only works
the first dozen or so times, then we start yawning )

Who's Al?

My post wasn't meant for you. You already have Firefox.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Sorry Al, you're not classed as fresh meat anymore - your reposte only works
the first dozen or so times, then we start yawning )

My, another MS fangirl hurling an ad hominem attack to lamely try to
change the subject. Talk about a "yawn".

Alias

 

[Guest]

I have been running IE7 under XP for a month and it's been painfully
slow

I don't have problems with IE7 under XP.

 

[Alias]

I don't have problems with IE7 under XP.

Do you also get Royal Flushes a lot when you play poker?

Alias

 

[Frank]

My, another MS fangirl hurling an ad hominem attack to lamely try to
change the subject. Talk about a "yawn".

Alias

OMG, give it up already, you're hurling ad nauseam.
Frank

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Depending on your ISP account, every visit to a page or every time you start
IE. I use the former for unlimited accounts, the latter for limited
download accounts.

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Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Blog:
http://www.msmvps.com/spywaresucks
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Troublemakers are never around for the long haul - we were lucky enough to
be visited by fly-by-nighters when IE5 was released, and then IE6 - so hang
in there, and if you need some light relief, I recommend visiting this site
and trying to decide which one will best suit the correspondent you are
dealing with:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/index.htm

I was likened to this one years ago - I love it - especially considering my
combatant didn't realise that I am a natural redhead
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/netiquettenazi.htm

Of course, in reality I am this ;o)
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/kungfumaster.htm

--

Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Blog:
http://www.msmvps.com/spywaresucks
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[Alias]

OMG, give it up already, you're hurling ad nauseam.
Frank

No.

Alias

 

[JD]

Thanks, Sandi. I remain curious as to the circumstances under which it would
be appropriate for anyone to choose the "Never" option.

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

Darned if I know. I don't think I've seen a single system set to use never
in the past 7 years.

--

Sandi Hardmeier
Microsoft MVP since 1999
http://www.ie-vista.com
Blog:
http://www.msmvps.com/spywaresucks
Internet Explorer Community
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx
The email address I use for newsgroups is a spam trap and does not get read.

 

[JD]

I guess I had in mind someone who clears the TIF cache every time the
browser closes, or does so, like me, at the end of each day.
This combined with a broadband (cable) connection would seem to make that
"updating" unnecessary.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Thanks, Sandi. I remain curious as to the circumstances under which it would
be appropriate for anyone to choose the "Never" option.

Use of "Never" would be appropriate when the sites you visit always
have constant auxiliary content such as graphics and scripts which
are cached. E.g. then there would not be any unnecessary checking
done by IE; it would just used the cached version. I suppose that this
would work best when the actual HTML was not cached; otherwise since
no checking would be done for it either you would just be opening the
cached version without ever knowing if anything on the site had changed,
unless you did an F5 Refresh, which then would defeat the point of using
"Never", since F5 does issue checks for the page and all of its components.

"Never" could also be used as part of a circumvention in dealing with
a misbehaving intermediate cache. E.g. if you detected that there is an
intermediate cache which is feeding stale content and not notifying the
real host server of your requests you could try to get it to force your requests
through it by using "Never" with Ctrl-F5 if necessary. Every Visit
or F5 in that scenario would just cause the misbehaving cache to
respond incorrectly that the versions that you had in your cache were
current, so "Never" then would avoid that useless overhead.

Use FiddlerTool to watch the effect of cache-checking
on your requests to gain more general insight on the effects
of those options and related manual procedures such as
re-rendering, F5 Refresh, and Ctrl-F5 Refresh.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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