Slow typing on address bar

[Guest]

Something is causing my ie6 to slow down SUDDENLY AND DRAMATICALLY, where
browsing is very slow, and when I type a URL into the address bar the
characters slowly come up one at a time. The problem goes away when I delete
my temporary Internet files, but it suddenly will come back, sometimes as
little as five minutes later, sometimes later than that.

I've updated and run a virus scan and run every spyware-destroying program
under the sun, both in regular mode and safe mode. The problem still seems to
be there. I have the latest updates for ie6 too. Also, I uninstalled and
reinstalled XP sp2, and uninstalled and reinstalled Norton Antivirus, since
it's caused problems for me before. Didn't help.

I don't know if this helps, but I've also noticed that my Windows Security
Center has started saying it doesn't know the status of NAV 2003. I think
this started happening at the same time as my other problem (over the last
few days). I've read that live update should resolve this, but it hasn't, so
I'm wondering if the problems are linked. (Maybe not.)

Help???

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Something is causing my ie6 to slow down SUDDENLY AND DRAMATICALLY,
where browsing is very slow, and when I type a URL into the address
bar the characters slowly come up one at a time. The problem goes
away when I delete my temporary Internet files, but it suddenly will
come back, sometimes as little as five minutes later, sometimes later
than that.

I've updated and run a virus scan and run every spyware-destroying
program under the sun, both in regular mode and safe mode. The
problem still seems to be there. I have the latest updates for ie6
too. Also, I uninstalled and reinstalled XP sp2, and uninstalled and
reinstalled Norton Antivirus, since it's caused problems for me
before. Didn't help.

I don't know if this helps, but I've also noticed that my Windows
Security Center has started saying it doesn't know the status of NAV
2003. I think this started happening at the same time as my other
problem (over the last few days). I've read that live update should
resolve this, but it hasn't, so I'm wondering if the problems are
linked. (Maybe not.)

Help???

Did you shutdown and restart?

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[Guest]

Yes. Many times over.

For what it's worth, I haven't had the problem yet today. Maybe it
mysteriously disappeared, but I'm not very hopeful....

 

[Guest]

Any ideas? Anybody?

Yes. Many times over.

For what it's worth, I haven't had the problem yet today. Maybe it
mysteriously disappeared, but I'm not very hopeful....

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
No ideas on the NAV problem. The Address Bar problem might be an
autocomplete problem- corruption in the History folder. Login as another
user with administrator privileges, or from the machine's default
administrator account (from safe mode) and delete the affected History
folder from Windows Explorer.

You would not be able to delete this History folder when logged in as
yourself- it's "In use." You should be able to delete it from the
Administrator account.

There's a CWS variant (CWS Datanotary) that can cause the "slow typing"
problem. In Internet Options> General> Accessibility, is User style sheet
checked? If so, and you didn't check it, download CWShredder from
http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php and run it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

"qarvin" wrote in message
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[Guest]

Thanks. First of all, I've run CWShredder many times -- it caught something
once, but the problem didn't go away. (Although I haven't had troubles all
day today, so maybe it somehow resolved itself....)

I will try out your history folder suggestion. Though I have my doubts,
since I don't even have the autocomplete option turned on.

Hi,
No ideas on the NAV problem. The Address Bar problem might be an
autocomplete problem- corruption in the History folder. Login as another
user with administrator privileges, or from the machine's default
administrator account (from safe mode) and delete the affected History
folder from Windows Explorer.

You would not be able to delete this History folder when logged in as
yourself- it's "In use." You should be able to delete it from the
Administrator account.

There's a CWS variant (CWS Datanotary) that can cause the "slow typing"
problem. In Internet Options> General> Accessibility, is User style sheet
checked? If so, and you didn't check it, download CWShredder from
http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php and run it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

"qarvin" wrote in message

Something is causing my ie6 to slow down SUDDENLY AND DRAMATICALLY, where
browsing is very slow, and when I type a URL into the address bar the
characters slowly come up one at a time. The problem goes away when I delete
my temporary Internet files, but it suddenly will come back, sometimes as
little as five minutes later, sometimes later than that.

I've updated and run a virus scan and run every spyware-destroying program
under the sun, both in regular mode and safe mode. The problem still seems to
be there. I have the latest updates for ie6 too. Also, I uninstalled and
reinstalled XP sp2, and uninstalled and reinstalled Norton Antivirus, since
it's caused problems for me before. Didn't help.

I don't know if this helps, but I've also noticed that my Windows Security
Center has started saying it doesn't know the status of NAV 2003. I think
this started happening at the same time as my other problem (over the last
few days). I've read that live update should resolve this, but it hasn't, so
I'm wondering if the problems are linked. (Maybe not.)

Help???