slow to open,

[Guest]

Can someone please help im going mad. I have windows xp home ed and for
sometime now when i try to open my browser {mozilla} after i turn my pc one
it takes for ever. I keep my pc well maintained defrag delete cookies and
history have a virus and adware protection etc. Yet when i trun it on i have
to click so many times. I tried clicking onece and just waiting but the hour
glass fianlly goes away and then nothing happens. Im not computer savy so
please remember that in your reply ty kindly,also if this text is in color im
sorry im trying to figure out how to make it just black, ty

 

[You Know Who ~]

The problem could be anti-virus software running. The mozilla software
often comes with other software installed (such as a google information bar)
which could also slow down your system. Without knowing more about your
system its hard to tell what might be a normal startup time.

 

[Guest]

Well i reinstalled mozilla and it is the new version i did it last week. It
does happend with ie as well. And im not sure what you mean by a 3rd tool
bar. This is sooo annoying i cant tell you how mad it makes me. Just now when
i turned on the puter it took over a min and 1/2 to finally get mozilla up .
And im getting at times the box that says not responding and then that takes
forever to get rid of. i dont know what would cause this delay in starting
it seems to hang and take forever for things to open. I changed my mouse
speed in control panel but it does nothing ,

Try this on the IE browser and see, you may have malwares on your computer:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit or you can send them here in your next
post) and click [OK] to confirm your Changes.

Click on Advanced Tab and scroll down under the browsing option and uncheck
this box:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) and click Apply
then OK to close your IE Properties.

2.... And also for malwares from here:
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
http://www.safer-networking.org ; for Spybot S&D
Run disk Clean Up and Defrag in safe mode, then Open run command and type in:
netsh winsock reset click [OK]
Reboot and see if your browser will behave.
If not try this command:
sfc /scannow click [OK]
Note the space between sfc_/
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass