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.