On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:15, RayBay <[email protected]> wrote: > Internet Explorer 8.0 has been guilty for a lot of the slowdowns, which are > wisespread among Windows XP and Windows Vista users... You might try > uninstalling it, then booting with Internet Explorer 6.11 or 7.0 for a > while... do an online search for the variety of problems in IE8 that cause > slow downs. >
I uninstalled IE8. It took me back to IE 6 :-). The thing I missed about IE6 was if I were in my computer, I could put in a web address in the address bar and windows explorer became internet explorer without missing a beat so I get to enjoy that for a while so I test the change. One thing I noted immediately was windows didn't whine and complain on restart. It went down and came back up without my intervention. I'll keep testing these changes for a few days to see if IE8 was the culprit. That would be bad if it were because I actually like IE8. > I would remove Spybot. It really does nothing useful, and has some > programs that slow down windows a lot... It is merely a Cookies remover, and > of course all the cookies come back anyway... at least the safe ones do. I didn't know spybot was no good. Will remove later though. I don't want to remove too much at one time and skew my test. > > Instead, I would use Windows Defender, MalwareBytes, and SuperAntiSpyware, > and see what infestations they find and remove. I already have Windows Defender. Defender is more quiet than all of them. I forgot it was installed. All I know it does is it thrashes my HDD pretty hard over night while it's doing scanning. Matt: I checked the event log. I have nothing that would indicate system errors related to explorer.exe. Been having weird problems with my wireless card a broadcomm 2000BG. Keeps falling off the network and rejoining it. My system EL is loaded with tcpip warnings but nothing on windows explorer. I attribute those to my router though so I didn't mention it here earlier. Thanks all,-- I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either learn the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win situation! _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
