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mikeno9
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n°855824
06-04-2007 at 08:53:12 PM

I built myself a new pc about a year ago and upon initial installation it ran very fast. At one point I had to reinstall XP and from that point on, Internet Explorer has been extremely slow. I have since then reinstalled on more than one occasion and each time, Internet Explorer runs terribly slow. My download speeds are still very fast and the rest of my programs seem to run ok but IE is terrible, averaging about 30 seconds in between clicks on yahoo. The rest of the pc's in the house do not have this problem so i'm not sure if it hardware or software related.

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edklite
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n°855826
06-04-2007 at 09:12:59 PM

what else you running? how about a Hijackthis log?

g-paw
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n°855839
06-04-2007 at 11:27:16 PM

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE? Before uninstalling be sure to export you Favorites and Address Book. Also try Firefox and see if it runs slow

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n°855846
06-05-2007 at 01:50:54 AM

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Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE?



Care to explain how to uninstall IE from Windows XP?

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Zoron
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n°855865
06-05-2007 at 07:32:51 AM

Well assuming he's upgraded to IE 7, it's very easy to uninstall and reinstall.

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n°855879
06-05-2007 at 01:20:58 PM

But the OP says, "I had to reinstall XP and from that point on, Internet Explorer has been extremely slow" so you can't assume it's IE7.

Grumpy

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n°855881
06-05-2007 at 01:37:19 PM

Go to Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components. Before you do this, download IE7 if you're using XP otherwise the newest version of IE6

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n°855885
06-05-2007 at 01:47:35 PM

I know IE7 can be uninstalled/reinstalled but it's impossible to remove IE6 from Windows XP. It's part of the OS.

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n°855889
06-05-2007 at 02:09:01 PM

Never tried to uninstall IE6. If uninstalling it is an option in Add/Remove, then you should be able to do it or at least revert to an earlier version that you could upgrade to the newest one, You can download and save the most recent version of IE6 and install it from the computer. If you're not running IE7 in XP, you could install it to see if that fixed the problem. If you don't like it, ininstall it and it will likely force Windows into reinstalling IE6.

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n°855915
06-05-2007 at 10:19:45 PM

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But the OP says, "I had to reinstall XP and from that point on, Internet Explorer has been extremely slow" so you can't assume it's IE7.

Grumpy



+1

also, you can't uninstall IE, not to say you can't at all which you can but then your explorer may not work, in otherwords its a part of xp without which xp may not run properly ;)

so in short you can't uninstall IE6 ;)

he owes, he owes, he is right and it's off to work he goes!

he is grumpy

;) :)


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