Guest DavidB Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 When I close my last Internet Explorer window and click on another program icon (or the Start Menu), the hour glass sits there for almost a minute and one-half (80 seconds) before the requested program starts. I am running a Pentium 233 MHz with 128 Meg of Ram. Is there a setting in Internet Options or elsewhere that I can use to try to fix this delay?
Guest PCR Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Delay after closing Internet Explorer DavidB wrote: | When I close my last Internet Explorer window and click on another | program icon (or the Start Menu), the hour glass sits there for almost | a minute and one-half (80 seconds) before the requested program | starts. I am running a Pentium 233 MHz with 128 Meg of Ram. Is there a | setting in Internet Options or elsewhere that I can use to try to fix | this delay? I used to get a CRASH to the IE Report Tool when I closed my last IE6 SP1 window! I'm not sure what started or cured it. I think it came/went during a flurry of Windows Updates. And there a few of them that MS redid! (1) Best do a virus scan. (2) "START button, Windows Update". That may fail, these days. Try again. Hopefully, it offers an update to some earlier faulty patch. (3) "START, Run, MSInfo32, Tools menu, IE Repair Tool" It produces a rather large "Fix IE Log.txt" in C:\Windows. IE & E are basically one & the same. If this crashes, an over-install of IE is indicated. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194177 Description of the Internet Explorer Repair Tool (4) Over-install IE. Try first without, but I believe it will request an internet connection. Perhaps it is best to let it connect, actually. If you don't care to get this fancy, just skip to step ©. (a) Turn off interfering programs. Use http://www.pcmag.com/ 's "StartupCop" or "EndItAll2". Or "START, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". Note what is unchecked, if anything. Then, go to the General tab & disable the entire Startup Group, by clicking "Selective.." & unchecking "Load Startup...". Reboot. (b) Perhaps, if you haven't got EndItAll2, then "Ctrl-Alt-Del" & end task all but Explorer & Systray. If this goes badly, start again from top, & skip it next time. © "START, Find, F/F, IE6Setup.exe". Click it in the Find window. NOTE: If you are IE5, then it's "IE5Setup.exe". If there are more than one (I have two each), click the one in "C:\WINDOWS\Windows Update Setup Files" or "C:\Windows Update Setup Files", as applicable. (d) Re-enable the Startup Group. That will automatically check all items. Go to the Startup tab & uncheck any noted in step (a). Reboot. (e) Perhaps go to Windows Update, to see whether it now offers criticals.
Guest Stu Langer Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 Re: Delay after closing Internet Explorer I've been noticing the same situation, but mostly after I've been browsing on Ebay, rather than just browsing the net. Could Ebay be putting something on my system for tracking purposes? I run Ad-Aware regularly and nothing comes up (except that darn Zedo cookie I can't get rid of). "DavidB" <#davidb105#@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:46a23f06.361424897@news.dallas.sbcglobal.net... > When I close my last Internet Explorer window and click on another > program icon (or the Start Menu), the hour glass sits there for almost > a minute and one-half (80 seconds) before the requested program > starts. I am running a Pentium 233 MHz with 128 Meg of Ram. Is there a > setting in Internet Options or elsewhere that I can use to try to fix > this delay?
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