IE 8 Slow and Hangs

Ozirus

Ozirus

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For the past 2 months, Internet Explorer 8 has been acting strange.

When I surf Youtube.com, IE8 is fine for the first 5 min., but then gets slow when opening links.

It eventually hangs when trying to open a video. I even try to make sure that I only have a max of 3 tabs open at any time.

Is anyone aware of the possible cause? Could it be IE8 itself? or 1 of it's settings?

I noticed that IE (with no add-ons) is also a little bit slower than usual.

I've been using Google Chrome as a substitute, which is quite fast and very responsive!

Any help would be very appreciated.
 

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    Rogers Hi-Speed Express (10 MB/s download, 512 kb/s upload.
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    AVG Internet Security
YouTube, do you mean actually watching the video's? If yes, go to device manager and check for yellow warning notices about your video card. If no yellow markers, make sure that drivers are up to date.
 

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    Dell XPS420
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    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
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    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
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    640 gb
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Graphics Card and Drivers are fine. I might try uninstalling IE8 and then re-install.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire T180 - Desktop
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 2.4 GHz (single core)
    Motherboard
    Chipset - nVidia MCP61/nForce 430 GeForce 6150SE
    Memory
    R.A.M. - 3072 MB DDR2 PC2-5300 (333MHz)/667 = 2(1024 MB), 2(512 MB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX GeForce GT 240 {1GB DDR3, 550 MHz GPU, SM 4.1, dx 10.1}
    Sound Card
    Onboard Realtek HD Audio ALC888
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer AL1706 LCD 17"
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi 160 GB SATA, Partitioned into C: and D:
    Internet Speed
    Rogers Hi-Speed Express (10 MB/s download, 512 kb/s upload.
    Other Info
    AVG Internet Security
First try this

Tools

Internet options


Advanced

Reset.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
I've tried everything that you could suggest, except "regedit", and re-installing IE8.

The culprit could be, Orbit Downloader, or AVG Safe Search.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire T180 - Desktop
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 2.4 GHz (single core)
    Motherboard
    Chipset - nVidia MCP61/nForce 430 GeForce 6150SE
    Memory
    R.A.M. - 3072 MB DDR2 PC2-5300 (333MHz)/667 = 2(1024 MB), 2(512 MB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX GeForce GT 240 {1GB DDR3, 550 MHz GPU, SM 4.1, dx 10.1}
    Sound Card
    Onboard Realtek HD Audio ALC888
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer AL1706 LCD 17"
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi 160 GB SATA, Partitioned into C: and D:
    Internet Speed
    Rogers Hi-Speed Express (10 MB/s download, 512 kb/s upload.
    Other Info
    AVG Internet Security
Too much unnecessary software. All that is needed is Miscrosoft Security Essentials, Malwarbytes and Windows Firewall. All else just slows you down and/or causes problems.

If interested, would you want me to post my maintenance recommendations?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Some users that upgraded to Internet Explorer 8 experience issues with tabs not working properly or taking a very long time to load. It seems for most users the issue can be attributed to a problem with actxprxy.dll not installing properly during the upgrade. If you have a similar problem with IE8, fixing the issue is as simple as a running one command.
 

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