Well I am a little unclear about your question. Could you answer me with
more detail about what is happening speciffically? The computer is slow I
understand. What operating system are you using and what version of IE. I
can reccomend a few things that may cause a computer to slow as I don't thin
it is a problem with IE. First scan your computer for viruses and see if it
comes up clean. Next check for malware and spyware. You can use this free
Microsoft program
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
This program comes out the second Tues of each month. Then if your system is
clean you can try some other things. One would be cleaning out unnnesary
files. A great free program for this is CCCleaner. You can download it free
from:
http://www.ccleaner.com/ and run it once a week.
Then you can test the actual speed of your modem connection by going to
www.speakeasy.net and selecting the server closet to you. This will
eliminate that possibility. get back to me and let me know how that works out
and more detail about the problem?
Best regards,
Kaja


"Joni" wrote:

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> I am posting this here because I cannot seem to find the correct board.
>
> How is this for a tale of woe! I have spent hours and hours installing and
> uninstalling IE 6 and IE7 on my Win XP as advised by my ISP provider and my
> computer mfr Hardware and Software Depts.
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>
>
> My DSL ISP told me it was an IE7 problem that was slowing down my computer.
> I went back to IE6 and forgot about all this then I reinstalled IE7 again
> and it worked fine for a long time then my computer started running very
> slow and then a tech from my computer mfr. Hdwe. Dept told me IE7 is really
> for Vista and after awhile it slows down the system. See last paragraph in
> this post.
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>
>
> At this point I went back to IE6 but the computer was still very slow. My
> DSL ISP checked my line for 4 days and finally a tech told me it was my
> modem. He was going to send me a new one but at the time I had already
> decided to switch to cable so I then had a cable connection to the Internet
> and a cable modem and IE6. (Note the computer mfr Hdwe. Tech changed my
> options so that I would be notified before I installed Windows Updates so I
> could do a custom setting and not select any IE7 installs.
>
>
>
> At this point I was having trouble with a page not displaying properly. I
> called my cable company and they told me it was a fault of my
> computer-either plug-ins or security settings. I called my computer mfr.
> software support dept. and I explained the page problem. -too far to the
> left with no way to move it further right. The computer mfr. tech asked me
> if I had SP3. At this point I suppose I still had SP3 but IE6 and it was my
> understanding that there was no way to remove the SP3 so he reinstalled the
> IE7 and this seems to have corrected the page that would not display
> properly. Seems he never came across this problem before. Now I am
> wondering how long it will be before IE7 slows things down again. Once
> again I guess I should switch to automatic download and install since I now
> have IE7 and I won't get anymore messages from one of my browsers about
> optimization meaning change to automatic.
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>
> IE7 by the way is awful when it comes to getting pages to print with larger
> print. I realize the lines do not get cut off like they sometimes do with
> IE6. Pasting everything into word to rearrange the lines and print larger
> is a headache as is trying to change the print options in the preview menu.
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> (Another question I had for my Hdwe dept. tech (mfr.) was why did my Windows
> Update tell me there was a newer version of IE when I had IE6 on a Windows
> XP computer if IE7 is not for Windows XP.
>
> The tech (mfr.) told me something about these messages going out to all
> types of computers such as Win. 2000 and I believe he even mentioned Apple.)
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