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Re: MS IE SUCKS!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:19:12 GMT
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Thanks for the ideas, I thought of it the opposite way. I figured bigger
temp files the less it would have to download. I had cranked up pretty
high, 60+mb. Out of curiosity, are there any third party extentions I would
ever want? Is 'flash' considered 3rd party? Ah well.
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Daniel Crichton writes:
> "Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:H4s2FF.HDx@lugnet.com...
> > Why does IE suck so much now? It constantly sucks my cpu down so much so
> > that the mouse stalls out. This happens when loading pages, or even just
> > sitting there. I think the idle stalls are caused by Messenger running in
> > the background. But it's gotten to the point where if I look a page with
> > multiple large pics it hangs for close to a minute. I don't really want • to
> > reformat/reinstall windows. Anybody know of a better fix? If I changed • (in
> > the registry) my port speeds to tweak a 56k connection, would that help?
> > Getting the latest version of IE hasn't helped either.
>
> Firstly reduce the size of your temporary files cache, the more files there
> are the slower it appears to get. Then set IE to clear the cache on
> shutdown. Also disable third-party extensions (I've seen a couple that
> really slow IE down, and setting this option off speeds IE up and hasn't
> appeared to have broken those third-party add-ins).
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> Tools -> Internet Options -> Settings button
> reduce amount of disk space
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> Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab
> under Browsing untick "Enable third-party browser extensions (requires
> restart)"
> under Security at the bottom tick "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder
> when browser is closed"
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> I've found these settings really helped speed up my IE :)
>
> Dan
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| "Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4tys0.1xs@lugnet.com... (...) The problem seems to be that a bigger causes problems managing all of those small files, creating a large overhead. (...) Things like flash, quicktime, etc (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| "Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4s2FF.HDx@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) (in (...) Firstly reduce the size of your temporary files cache, the more files there are the slower it appears to get. Then set IE to clear the cache (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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