IE8 and websites

[Peterwolfe]

Trying to close websites when using IE8 starts to become a problem. When I click on the wellknown X it takes at least 6-12 seconds before the page disappears, have really wait for it....and after a while it gets harder and harder to open new ones..... its as if XP doesnt want me to open more....

Have XP+SP3 and all the MSgadgets, IE8, AVG and all the other wellknow defences..lol...using XP's firewall...
Machineinfo: Asus, AMD Athlon 64, 3200+, 3Gb RAM

[patio]

Is this on the failing HDD ? ?

[Peterwolfe]

uh, failing HDD? Ah, you read some more somewhere else...lol... Nope, has nothing to do with that case, no...got myself a new one same type WDG Caviar, had guarantee (3 HDD same type in 4 years and I thought WDG was an ok type... )

And its a new installation too.....still not decided if I keep IE8 or go back to Opera, just thought this was strange behaviour even for a MS dings...lol

[patio]

Post your system specs...

[Peterwolfe]

as I did in my question, but gladly repeat it:

Have XP+SP3 and all the MSgadgets, IE8, Opera, AVG and all the other wellknow defences..lol...using XP's firewall...

Machineinfo: Asus, AMD Athlon 64, 3200+, 2.02Ghz, 3Gb RAM

[patio]

How much free space is on that drive ? ?
Capacity ? ?

[Peterwolfe]

250 of 450 Gb and defragmented...lol

[jason2074]

AVG and all the other wellknow defences

well-known what? This could be the problem. Specify previously installed then uninstalled well-known defenses aside from AVG.

[Peterwolfe]

ok, lol...

Superantispyware free edition, Spybot, Malwarebytes free version, AVG 2011 free edition, XP Firewall....CCleaner...

Heard something about the fact that in XP you could only open x number of pages and there is patch? that puts that amount to infinity?

[jason2074]

Spybot

I do think its this... Is it still running/installed? Have you clean out history,cookies or temporary internet files?

[BC_Programmer]

Heard something about the fact that in XP you could only open x number of pages and there is patch? that puts that amount to infinity?

load of tosh.

[Peterwolfe]

Jason: spybot is not running in the background, its installed and I use it once a week. And yes CClean cleans out all the rest once a day 

[jason2074]

Check first your active add-ons loading time. On IE, click Tools, Manage add-ons, once open scroll right. You will have an idea why IE is taking too long to load by current add-ons + loading time. Try disabling first the one with the highest loading time. Highlight and choose disable, close. Close IE8. This is better tested after you rebooted your computer before opening IE8. On the first time you( re)booted your computer and opening a browser(IE) will  know the difference of how it took effect upon changes made. If everything is still the same...
Run your IE browser without Add-ons, on your desktop, right-click IE icon click on Start w/out Add-ons.
One of your current loaded add-ons might be corrupted. Enable each one after if IE8 made a better loading time after choosing to run w/out add-ons. Close browser after every enabled toolbars or add-ons.

spybot is not running in the background, its installed and I use it once a week

Updating and immunizing... Try these also --> http://www.ehow.com/how_5834063_remove-resident-spybot.html
* If after the above steps did'nt worked. Or your could start by this step then reboot computer.
* Ccleaner??? 

[Peterwolfe]

only 4: the slowest was AVG search in .3 sec

spybot stuff: were not ticked...

you are not going to tell me that you havent heard about CCleaner???
http://www.piriform.com/

[rthompson80819]

3 HDD same type in 4 years and I thought WDG was an ok type

Am I reading this right, three hard drives in four years?  If so, that's not normal, even if it's a raid set up, and it doesn't sound like it is.  And WD is generally as good as any.

[Peterwolfe]

I know... but i told the guys in the shop what I did with my HDD's and they checked the capacity, motherboard, in all the whole PC, I even had the right fans and cooling blocks(after all we are talking about AMD...lol)...so. its still a mystery

[Quantos]

And yes CClean cleans out all the rest once a day 

I hope that you haven't run the registry cleaner, that could be the problem if you had.

[Peterwolfe]

yeah right ...lol...hahahahahahahaha.....then explain to me why it doesnt happen when using Opera and a lot of my nerd-friends (I am not by the way) use CCleaner on a daily basis and they never reported any of this when they use IE, if any...lol

[BC_Programmer]

then explain to me why it doesnt happen when using Opera

Probably because Opera doesn't use the registry for it's settings, or the settings it does use aren't affected by ccleaner.

Either way, CCleaner doesn't do any of the dangerous registry cleaning (guessing what files are and are not accessible, for example). So it's sort of a moot point.

Sounds to me, you're infected. IE going slow is almost always a result of any number of Browser Hooks and unsolicited Addons being installed. You've said, I know, that you have "all the well known defenses" but have you tried running them?

lastly: there is no need to have "lol" in every single one of your posts. It gets a bit silly reading this thread. "I defragmented! LOL!"

[Peterwolfe]

yes, every friday I have the lot RUNNING......and every time they get back at me with: YEAH, NO INFECTIONS......and sometimes I have to use lol to show how I think some answers or suggestions are "kind of ridiculous" especially coming from guys who are experts here...sorry...LOL...

[reddevilggg]

I had problems when the Tea Timer was running in Spybot. It slowed my browswer down alot.

[BC_Programmer]

1) In IE, go Tools/Manage Addins and disable all the ones you can live without, including "diagnose connection"
2) In a command prompt type: regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

Also, try disabling AVG's safe surfing add-on. That reportedly causes IE to take a while to close, and tab/window opening problems.

[Quantos]

yeah right ...lol...hahahahahahahaha.....then explain to me why it doesnt happen when using Opera and a lot of my nerd-friends (I am not by the way) use CCleaner on a daily basis and they never reported any of this when they use IE, if any...lol

You'd best lose that attitude pretty quickly neighbor.  The next time you think that you know better than I do ask yourself this - Why does your sorry *censored* have a problem and I don't.

[CBMatt]

Oh, Quantos, you made my day.

[Peterwolfe]

yeah, mine too...hahahahahahahahaha ...like that "censored" stuff, cool....

[Azzaboi]

I would highly suggest 'BC_Programmer' solution with: Start > Run > regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

If this solves the issue, it could sometimes later return, a good hint something is messing around with your registry settings.
Note: It might of been cause by a Registry cleaner. They are perfectly fine to use, so long you know what they are up to and under strict manual control. Some advance deep registry cleaning can mess up settings. Advanced SystemCare 3 is a great one to use and fully control.

Make sure your not running more than one background scanning process at a time - for example use only one anti-virus scanner and have all other cleaners, adware scanners, etc, as manual scanning only. Multiple active scanning can conflict, causing slowdowns, hanging, or even crashes.

As for checking your web-browser add-ons: Tools > Manage Add-ons

Test them one at a time, if you find it works fine without add-ons.

Ensure these aren't still stuck into memory when closing IE8. For example, the flash plugin 'FlashUtil10l_ActiveX.exe' loves to 'hang' around (pun intented), press Ctrl+Alt+Del > Windows Task Manager and you might still see it even when your've closed the browser or multiple 'iexplorer.exe' entries (check if they disappear after some time or not).

Disable Flash/Shockwave plug-ins, re-install to the latest version if they are a problem. Ensure your using the 32bit version of the Web-browser (IE8 has two versions 32bit and 64bit). The 64bit version doesn't fully support the flash plugin, if you want to still use it, uninstall the flash plugin and replace with Flash Player "Square" which enables 64-bit but is only in the beta stage.

Disabling any Java plug-in you might have. Java is a major slowdown, mostly affects page loading, well known to hang on scripts, and has security holes. If this is the issue, ensure you fully uninstall it and then fresh install the latest version if required.

Also you might want to disable: Download Helpers plugins, anything labeled with 'Not Verified', Adobe's stuff and Microsoft's junk: Live Sign-in Helper, Discuss, Research, and Windows Media Player, if there.

Use 'About:Blank' for your homepage for now: Tools > Internet Options > General > Homepage > Use Blank. Then test, this will make sure it's not a certain website causing the hang. Some virus scanners use link checker plugins for your web-browsers, this might be locking up.

[Peterwolfe]

thank God, an answer I can work with, thanks Azzaboi. use Advanced SystemCare 3  already...add-ons already fixed, slowest thats hanging is one in 0.3 secs..lol...Java I cant do anything with....I need to use it for getting into my web-bankaccount...lol...but thats another problem described in Otherr-section...lol...
using vlc player and adobe reader...but the rest is "kosher" and not MS based, well XP is..hahahahahahaha

[reddevilggg]

Having Advnaced System Care running slows the system down.

[patio]

LoL.....

[Azzaboi]

@reddevilggg:
Advanced System Care has the option to disable automatic care (defaults to run only when idle anyways) but I recommend disable so you run it only manually, it won't slow your system down (since it's not even memory resident). The PRO version is consisted a world's top system utility for superior PC health and actually would speed up your system. It's a collection of tools such as spyware removal, registry fixes, privacy sweeper, junk files cleaner, performs system optimizations, adds a layer of security defense, and has a security analyzer and disk defragment tool. I however don't care for their optional extra tool downloads such as Game Booster or the optional web-browser toolbar install during setup (easily unticked / ignored).

[reddevilggg]

 

@Azzaboi, thanks for that, but i know what it is and what it does, but when it running from start up it slows my system down, compared to starting it, then using it, then closing it manually. I can only speak from experience and that has what has happened on the systems that i have got.

[Azzaboi]

but when it running from start up it slows my system down, compared to starting it, then using it, then closing it manually.

Yeah, that's what I was recommending to do, run it only manually (any software like that for that matter). Having more than one active scanner and more background processes (rather than just the one anti-virus) could slow you down with services fighting over resources.

[Peterwolfe]

and again, as a lot of my "problems" reported to this board, it turns again into a discussion that loses my attention and the cause of the report...and starts to develop into a discussion between experts(?)

[BC_Programmer]

and again, as a lot of my "problems" reported to this board, it turns again into a discussion that loses my attention and the cause of the report...and starts to develop into a discussion between experts(?)

you never try a damned thing anybody suggests; or more precisely, you never give feedback about them. For example, still no report on wether this helped:

1) In IE, go Tools/Manage Addins and disable all the ones you can live without, including "diagnose connection"
2) In a command prompt type: regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

Also, try disabling AVG's safe surfing add-on. That reportedly causes IE to take a while to close, and tab/window opening problems.

[Peterwolfe]

thank God, an answer I can work with, thanks Azzaboi. use Advanced SystemCare 3  already...add-ons already fixed, slowest thats hanging is one in 0.3 secs..lol..

and no, I dont have AVG's surfing add-on on...

[BC_Programmer]

add-ons already fixed, slowest thats hanging is one in 0.3 secs..lol..

Had nothing to do with my suggestion. I never said anything about either "fixing" addons nor hanging addons, so not sure what relevance that has.

and no, I dont have AVG's surfing add-on on...

then ignore that suggestion.

[Peterwolfe]

add-ons was a suggestion of one of the other helpers ..but well, now I have being using Opera for quite a while and no problems there, so I will have to forget IE and put Opera up front, but thanks for all the  ;Dsuggestions