Also, certain internet providers (Like COUGHCentury LinkCOUGH COUGH) Are still updating their server depots, so they just can't simply keep up with the new. I think it runs extra services that may slow it down. Particularly as Firefox doesn't seem to make such a meal of the process. I have windows 8, and I do find it slower then my old windows 7 computer (regarding the internet speed and computer performance). Internet security tools I'm not sure why this seems to be such a problem for my machine. What is IE up to? I could understand if it was an issue with the phishing filter or a security issue that was causing trouble with my AV software, but since this is a Microsoft OS running a Microsoft browser to access a Microsoft website using Microsoft

Once IE is chuntering at 100% of a core, Firefox appears to be blocked too.Īll windows updates are installed including the less important, non-critical updates. I've now tried installing Firefox on my machine and it performs much better, unless IE is running too. I've checked the processes running on my machineĪnd iexplore takes up 50% CPU for each session (100% of a core) and if I accidentally start two IE sessions they will each both take a core, freezing the PC until IE is done. I also have issues with refreshing IE8 to see if I have new mails in my Hotmail session. If I click on the icon more than once, I have the same delay until all IE8 sessions open simultaneously. Windows Messenger tells me I have new mails and when I click the mail icon I will always have to wait for 20 seconds to a minute for IE8 to start and take me to my IE8 generally performs well on most websites but seems to hate .uk with a passion. To resolve, I decided to reload my PC from scratch and have only installed Windows 7 Home Premium, Office 2007, Windows Live suite, Security Essentials, Visual Studio 10 Express and SQL Server 2008 Express. I have been experiencing performance issues with Internet Explorer 8 and it's integration with the Windows Live suite of products for quite a while. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on a dual core 32 bit Dell Inspiron 530.

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