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November 29th, 2003 04:00
20 second delay loading first Internet Explorer web page
I posted this problem a while back, and at the time, blamed Windows Messenger. I’ve got second thoughts now, and a better description of the symptoms. So here goes again…
My home page is set to "about: blank". When I launch IE, it comes up immediately (to the blank home page). However, when ever I try to access the first real web page from there, I get a consistent 20 second delay. Then it loads quickly. And, all subsequent web pages I go to after than (and within the same IE window) load quickly as well. But if I open another IE window (to "about: blank"), I get the exact same symptoms in that window (a 20 second delay, followed by normal browsing performance). Here are some facts.
1) I've got a new Dell 4600, plenty of RAM, and a DSL connection.
2) This 20 second delay is consistent, whether I go to a web page I've visited before, a new one, a simple one, or a complex one.
3) The delay is consistent and independent of how many applications I have open at the time.
4) The delay wasn't always there. It seemed to start after a Windows Messenger update (to v4.7). However, I've used "Add/Remove Windows Components" to remove it from my startup. After a reboot, the IE delay is still there. I’m beginning to doubt WM is the culprit.
5) I unselected “Enable third-party browser extensions (restart required)” on the “Internet Options\Advanced Tab”. I read this suggestion as a reply to a similar problem posted in another forum. But it didn’t have any effect for me.
Amy ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
My home page is set to "about: blank". When I launch IE, it comes up immediately (to the blank home page). However, when ever I try to access the first real web page from there, I get a consistent 20 second delay. Then it loads quickly. And, all subsequent web pages I go to after than (and within the same IE window) load quickly as well. But if I open another IE window (to "about: blank"), I get the exact same symptoms in that window (a 20 second delay, followed by normal browsing performance). Here are some facts.
1) I've got a new Dell 4600, plenty of RAM, and a DSL connection.
2) This 20 second delay is consistent, whether I go to a web page I've visited before, a new one, a simple one, or a complex one.
3) The delay is consistent and independent of how many applications I have open at the time.
4) The delay wasn't always there. It seemed to start after a Windows Messenger update (to v4.7). However, I've used "Add/Remove Windows Components" to remove it from my startup. After a reboot, the IE delay is still there. I’m beginning to doubt WM is the culprit.
5) I unselected “Enable third-party browser extensions (restart required)” on the “Internet Options\Advanced Tab”. I read this suggestion as a reply to a similar problem posted in another forum. But it didn’t have any effect for me.
Amy ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
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fireberd
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November 29th, 2003 10:00
It sounds like I.E. is trying to find "about:blank" and the 20 second delay is the time it takes to time out (????)
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 11:00
Good suggestion. Here's what I did. I set my home page to www.vivisimo.com (a search engine I use with a very static web page). Next, I open EI, it loads the page instantly. Then, I try to go to www.cnn.com, and get the 20 second delay. I suspect the "vivisimo" page elements were being loaded from my local disk (cache?), and that the CNN page was the first to try to access the web
Next, I set my home page to www.cnn.com. (a much more dynamic web page). This time, when I opened IE, nothing loaded for 20 seconds.
In both cases, navigating to a subsequent web page (www.foxnews.com, to be politically balanced) happened very quickly, and normally.
karn3ra
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November 29th, 2003 13:00
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 13:00
I've disabled 3rd party browser.
I've also done the following.
- Deleted all "off line" files.
- Deleted IE history.
So far, none of these have made any changes to the symptoms. (Still a consistant 20 second delay on the first page only).
I did notice one new thing that may help however. During the 20 second delay, in the lower left corner of the IE window, a text message says: "Detecting proxy settings". That goes away when the web page finally starts loading.
Does that help?
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 15:00
Here's what I found. In the LAN section of Connection Tab of Internet Options, there are two boxes that can be checked.
- Automatically Detect Settings
- Use automatic configuration script.
(I have a URL entered into the field for the second one. It's for a VPN connection I use at work. I didn't mention it earlier because I didn't think it was involved.) I ran a test, setting these two selections to all four possible combinations. Here's what I found.
Auto detect on off on off
Use auto config on on off off
20 sec. delay? Yes Yes No No
VPN works? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Summary:
1) If "use Auto Config Script" was checked, I suffered the 20 second delay, regardless of the "auto detect" setting.
2) My VPN connection worked, regardless of the settings. (Albeit, the address was in the box, whether it was grayed out or not.)
Lastly, evidently IE 5.0 had a similar problem. I found a Knowledge Base paper on it. # 220902. It said to disable "Auto detect", which turns out not to solve the problem. But it helped to get me to the right area.
Thanks again for the help.