This is really really great Zener, everything is running faster.  Thanks
again!!


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:28 AM, John Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been on forum pages for probably more than a year looking for a slow
> browser solution.  This seems to have helped a lot Zener, Thanks!!
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Zener Stanfill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't know how many of you this may affect, but I thought it useful
>> information to share.
>>
>> Case:
>> Windows 7 (any version could be affected) (Clean install or not)
>> Internet Explorer 9 and up
>>
>> When I ran Internet Explorer, the start up page would load, but instead
>> of seeing a webpage, all I saw was white. My cpu usage was pegged. I would
>> get an error message and click the close browser button. The browser just
>> kept throwing out the same error message over and over again.
>>
>> When I disabled the Display Adapter (video card) in Device Manager, IE
>> worked just fine.
>>
>> I discovered a setting that can be used in Internet Options that fixes
>> this problem. IE by default, uses GPU (Graphics Processing Unit aka
>> Video Card) rendering for its webpages. If you have a wimpy (cheap)
>> Graphics Adapter like the one in the machine I'm working on, it won't be
>> able to give IE what it wants/needs. So instead, IE needs to use Software
>> rendering.
>>
>> In an ideal world, (hint, hint microsoft...), IE would detect this
>> conflict and automatically fix this issue with no user intervention. Until
>> then, some of us need to do things the manual way.
>>
>> Here's the trick:
>> Open the Internet Options (do this in the Control Panel>Network  and
>> Internet>Internet Options).
>> Click Advanced tab.
>> In the Settings section, find Accelerated graphics (for me it was at the
>> top of the list.)
>> Put a check mark next to: Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering.
>> Click OK.
>> Run IE. All is fine...
>>
>> The information about this conflict and resolution can be found at:
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338138.aspx
>> in the section titled:
>> "Internet Explorer is crashing or seems slow".
>> Note: The microsoft page references IE 11. As I stated earlier, this
>> affects IE 9 and up.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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