Problems with IE7

Question

I had no problems with the beta version of IE7. When I downloaded the latest version I've been experiencing very slow initial connection speeds. I'll explain. I have a wireless router so when the PC boots up it automatically connects to the internet. I have Yahoo's weather widget running which used to connect within a few seconds to show me how dull and miserable the weather will be this week! Problem is since installing IE7 the widget takes approx 2-3 minutes to connect. I can live with that but when the PC boots and I click on the IE7 icon it can take as long to get onto the internet. If I try and do anything else while I'm connectingto the interent then this can bring things to a virtual standstill. I never had this problem with IE6 and as I mentioned the beta version of IE7 was fine. I've recently done a full system restore hoping that it might work better if the PC is back to the way it was when it was shipped. But this has made no difference. Weird thing is when I use Firefox it takes around 10 seconds for that to get going! Once I'm on the internet with IE7 I have no problems surfing it's just the initial connecting that bugs me! I'd be grateful if anyone has any ideas why this is happening?

simpswr · Answer

You might want to uninstall the Yahoo toolbar/widget . . I have seen them cause issues with IE7

mombodog · Answer

Open IE go to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced Tab,  look for and Un Tick 'enable third party browser extensions', hit OK, close all instances of IE7, restart the program. While you are in the advanced section scroll down and Tick 'empty temp internet files folder when browser is closed' also.

bobh621 · Answer

After downloading IE7 I had long reboot time, and corrected the problem by changing USB port from Boot to No Boot, by hitting F2 on startup.

Ivesy · Answer

Hi thanks for the replies. I've done what has been suggested and even uninstalled the Yahoo Widget engine but things are just the same. As booting up isn't a problem I haven't changed anything in the boot up sequence. I'm tempted to do another system restore. I'm not sure though because I did one about 10 days ago and the first thing I installed was IE7 and it still took a long toime to connect! The only thing I'm thinking about now is when the PC first re boots after the system restore XP asks how you plan to connect to the internet now usually I select DSL and follow the next instructions. But! the last time I'm sure I just selected 'next' as I couldn't see the point in that bit? Right that's it I'm going to try a system restore AGAIN and see hwat that does! I'll be back on here with the results (hopefully) Thanks again!

Ivesy · Answer

Well that didn't work either!  I have noticed though in the Network Connections an Internet Gateway Icon that I'm sure wasn't there before! The other icon is th LAN or High Speed Internet.

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