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"niggly problems"

I've got two trivial problems that was wondering if anyone could help me with...

First off when I load up internet explorer (fully updated latest version) the thing takes a bloody age to start, I mean I'm talking about 20 to 30 seconds, which is silly because I have a 700Mhz processor and 512MB of RAM, so it's nothing on the power side that's causing it. It's making loading up new windows a real pain.

Secondly, from time to time, when I change between open windows, XP hangs. It's not a permanent thing, just both tabs on the taskbar get shaded and you have to wait 30 or so seconds before it switches to the window you wanted. This doesn't happpen all the time, but again it's a niggly little problem that's annoying me.

And stress is a killer :-)

I realise how silly it is suggesting this, but its something I always forget to do...

But, have you deleted your 'Temporary Internet Files'?

Once IE uses up is HDD quota, it can become almost unusably sluggish to use?

Fog wrote:
> XP always seems to have problems, it's never "I've got a problem
> with ME or 2K" I've only seen 1! Whats GOOD about XP?

Plenty, its the best Windows OS so far, tis truely excellent. Highly stable (2weeks 3days before i had to restart it), highly user friendly without being dumbed down, really customisable, and full of cool little features.

I thought Fix-it was a little crap to be honest.

I had problems with my hard-disk, which I knew were problems with my hard disk, so I got fix-it to see if it would provide a solution. Fix-it miraculously found problems with my hard-disk and told me to run scan-disk. Well, thanks fix-it, I never would have done anything as complex and obscure as that to get my computer to work...

No font options just means your PCs stressed for resources and you need a restart.

XP always seems to have problems, it's never "I've got a problem with ME or 2K" I've only seen 1! Whats GOOD about XP?

Defrag your Hard Drive, and/or try Fix it Utilties from www.ontrack.com I used it yesterday when Outlook reused to give me fonts options. Sorted out the registry and now everything's great.

Other solutions might be on www.drkeyboard.net

Cheers, I'm pretty close to reinstalling IE, but I'm running XP, with different user accounts for siblings + parents and XP has a tendancy to only install things in the installers area, making it annoying to get everyone else back up and running as well.

I'll try the fragmentation thing. fragging my computer sounds better though :-)

I had a similar problem, not with IE (because its rubbish and I don't use it) but with Word. The problem turned out to be a massively fragmented installation. Try running the analyser thing in XP's defragmentation tool and see if any likely sounding files are fragmented. After defragmenting, this problem disappeared for me - despite overall disk defragmentation being <5%.

So to sum up, download Opera and/or Mozilla ;).

I doubt it's a ram problem if hes got 512Mb of it, he said it's only when hes loading a new Window up, i'm guessing the rest from there onwards is normal...
Probably your browser, try re-installing it or downloading a fresh copy, I doubt you'd need to, but maybe download v5 again? see if that gives you the same problems.

Try and free up some Virtual Memory.

Or update your modem drivers (if you have a modem).

My system's running fine. I think it might be a prblem with IE, because it's only the IE windows that cause the hanging problem, and IE's the only program that takes ages to start up.