Vista - ie7 very unresponsive

Hi there,
We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
minute for the next page to load, and so on.
Other applications like Office 2007, QB, work fine.
I have loaded FireFox and it works fine.
I would like to uninstall ie7 and then load it again but I cannot find
where to do that. Or is there something else I should look into?
ALmost forgot, antivirus is provided by McAffee and I have tried
disabling the personal protection, anti hacker etc. and No difference.
Any help would be appreciated.

Robert Serna wrote:
> Hi there,
> We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
Perfectly runs Ubuntu, much faster, without any DRM, immune to ALL the
Microsoft virus malware, so, no need to run any AV apps!!
> A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
> very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
> open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
> minute for the next page to load, and so on.
Best to just run Firefox, much better in the tabbed browsing, more
mature, less opportunity for exploits...

> Other applications like Office 2007, QB, work fine.
But, all those also have total registry access!
"DANGER, Will Robinson! Alien Invaders!"

> I have loaded FireFox and it works fine.
OK! One for the good guys!

> I would like to uninstall ie7 and then load it again but I cannot find
> where to do that. Or is there something else I should look into?
Run the uninstaller? Ignore the biatch!

> ALmost forgot, antivirus is provided by McAffee and I have tried
> disabling the personal protection, anti hacker etc. and No difference.
> Any help would be appreciated.

Grab Grifsoft.com AVG instead, as it is the premiere AV program, and is
FREE!

Then, you really should grab these, FREE:
CrapCleaner, run at least once a week.
Spybot S&D
Lavasoft Adaware
hijackthis
shootthemessenger

They only slow the system a small amount, much less than hosting 1723
different trojans, virus, malware worms would.

The better option is to grab a liveCDrom of http://www.mepis.org and let
your system run from ramdisk. instant reboot goes back to running
Windoze on the harddrive.

"Robert Serna" wrote:

> Hi there,
> We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
> A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
> very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
> open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
> minute for the next page to load, and so on.

1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
Temporary Internet Files: Delete
2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
of page

BillD wrote:
>
> "Robert Serna" wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
>> A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
>> very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
>> open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
>> minute for the next page to load, and so on.
>
> 1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
> Temporary Internet Files: Delete
> 2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
> of page

Thank you, I had tried that already and it behaves the same, that's why
I was thinking of somehow uninstalling ie and then loading it again.

BillD wrote:
>
> "Robert Serna" wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> We have a Dell Dimension with Windows Vista Business, 2gb of Ram , etc...
>> A couple of weeks ago MS Internet Explorer 7 became unresponsive and
>> very slow to load, it will take a couple of minutes for the homepage to
>> open (msn.com or any). then you click on a link and it takes another
>> minute for the next page to load, and so on.
>
> 1. Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History: settings -> Delete ->
> Temporary Internet Files: Delete
> 2. Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> press the Reset button on bottom
> of page


Thanks,
I tried that and IE crashed.
Got an error message that said the program is not working and had to be
restarted.

Is there a way of uninstalling IE7, so that I can reload it?