Slow Starting Internet

[Steve Giannoni]

Outlook Express and Internet Explorer take more than a minute to load.
Rebooting will cure the condition for a limited time only. Any help or
informed suggestions will be most welcome & thanks.

 

[Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps)]

Outlook Express and Internet Explorer take more than a minute to load.
Rebooting will cure the condition for a limited time only. Any help or
informed suggestions will be most welcome& thanks.

What OS are you using? What anti-virus solution?

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/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33.2
^ ^ 19:09:01 up 12 days 11:01 2 users load average: 1.03 1.06 1.10
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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Windows XP home, and McAfee ...

What OS are you using? What anti-virus solution?

 

[Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps)]

Did you make some changes to your system lately before the problem happened?

Windows XP home, and McAfee ...

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@~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33.2
^ ^ 20:47:02 up 12 days 12:39 2 users load average: 1.02 1.05 1.06
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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa

 

[Steve Giannoni]

No changes, etc. It just started taking forever to load the Internet
programs. Think I'll try disabling the McAfee firewall ? ...

 

[Steve Giannoni]

But, just now it's not a problem, so I'll have to wait to try anything
(Murphy's law).

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Where is the Event Viewer ?

Check Windows' Event Viewer for any errors, and try to find
any other apps which don't respond.

Generally long load times, opposed to internet connectivity
problems, are caused by insufficient memory (so check memory
use in Task Manager) or a failing hard drive or intermittent
network adapter (so run HDD manufacturer diagnostics and
when it won't load pull up a command prompt and check
"ipconfig /all" and traceroute something common like
"tracert google.com".

You might also want to see if other similar types of apps
have problems, for example temporarily install Firefox and
Thunderbird and see if they work ok without the delay...
though Firefox takes a moment longer to load the first time
after boot since unlike IE the OS hasn't loaded half of it
into memory during the OS boot... but by longer I mean a
handful of seconds, not even 1 dozen on any system new
enough to have been made in the WinXP era... but you didn't
mention the system specs.

 

[Steve Giannoni]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:54:38 -0400, Steve Giannoni

Control Panel, Administrative Tools ...

 

[Roy]

Windows XP home, and McAfee ...




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McAfee is known to be a resource hog and I had experienced that also
in one pc.....It really slowed down my browsing and outlook
express.....
When I changed to Kaspersky , things improved ........

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Do you recall how you uninstalled McAfee ?

Often there is an utility specific to the job ...

 

[Roy]

Do you recall how you uninstalled McAfee ?

Often there is an utility specific to the job ...




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IIRC I downloaded a utility for completely uninstally McAffee

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Where and or what did you download ? ...

IIRC I downloaded a utility for completely uninstally McAffee

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Where and or what did you download ? ...

On the macafee site , thats were I got a removal tool.
Norton also has a "bash_norton" program.
And last night I tested the "REVO UNINSTALLER", to kill
a M$ application.