Internet Explorer 8 slow to open

[AlOnan]

Try this tool. It made my IE much faster.

 

[sailorbox]

I have been having the same problem as others, up to 30 secs. to open my home page, so I started disabling add on's and the two that did the trick were Google Toolbar and Google toolbar Helper. Now opens in 5 seconds. I have the 32 bit Vista

 

[davejack]

Go to the Advanced tab in Internet Options. Near the bottom, click the Reset User Preferences button.

You'll need to close out IE and relaunch it. It will then bring up the dialog box that steps you through setting up IE. Go through it and turn off EVERYTHING:

1. Turn off accelerators
2. Turn off updates to search engines
3. Turn off sending stats to MS
4. Turn off compatability mode

I think there's some more, but I'm not at my IE8 machine, but this has helped considerably. Once you've changed all of this, close out IE and launch it one more time and you should see an increase in your initial web page coming up. I know mine went from 45+ seconds to around 5-10 seconds.

Definitely, all the new "enhancements" that IE8 gives causes severe problems for many people.

Thank you, much better now, not as quick as my xp pro, but a vast improvement.

 

[brummyfan]

You can also speed up IE8 by increasing the Temp.Internet Files disk space to 500MB.
Internet Options->General->Browsing History->Settings.