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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Gunslinger on August 05, 2005, 05:56:50 PM

Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: Gunslinger on August 05, 2005, 05:56:50 PM: I've had a problem recenly with IE. When ever I try and load it up it takes at least 2-3 minutes to load. I've run a bunch of virus scanners and adaware type stuff but my pc is clear.

The other thing is If I load up somehting else like fire fox or outlook it finally decides to load all at once.

Anyone else run into this issue?
Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: OOZ662 on August 05, 2005, 11:22:45 PM: Have you run a registry cleaner? Download and run EasyCleaner (Use Google to find the free one; it's just as good as the $15 one.)

How long has it been since your last hard drive reformat? You should do it at least once every couple years.
Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 06, 2005, 07:55:41 AM: Check your temporary files directory to see if it is overloaded. If you allow the default to be used by IE, and have a largish hard drive, IE could have set it to many, many gigabytes.
I typically restrict IE to 20 MB for the temp directory.

Go to Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Cleanup and see how much is being eaten up.
Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: Stone on August 06, 2005, 08:57:03 AM: I noticed that it takes some time to open IE, but not minutes. I finaly stop using GOOGLE TOOLBAR, and I think its faster now.

So if you have any search systems installed in IE try to uninstall that.

Also check what you have installed via IE.

I think you find the installed "plugins" under "windows/downloaded programfiles"

You will find a lot of files there. Look at the file properties, and look if the "CodeCase" makes sence. Delete any unwanted plugins.
Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 06, 2005, 12:11:32 PM: The Google toolbar is a spyware program. No way would I ever install it.
Title: Explorer load time?
Post by: JB66 on August 06, 2005, 02:02:05 PM: Download Hijackthis and run it and paste the log file here. That will allow several people to go over it and steer you in the right direction.