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. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Eugene PC User Group's mailing list >> Write to this list at: [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe just send an email to: [email protected] >> >> To change your maillist options or view the archive visit: >> http://epcug.net/mailman/listinfo/pcusers_epcug.net >> >> >
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