Comments on: Internet Explorer (IE) 7 Slow Since Vista Upgrade

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:49:12 +0000

Quick tip of the day for new users to IE (cos it seems people struggle with this).

To change the homepage to google simply visit the google website and select “set google as homepage”. Simple!!

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:41:01 +0000

I had the same problem, slow loading pages via wireless. Found a recommendation on a different forum to roll back driver on wireless adapter - this worked great for me but slow loading pages came back in a few days. After some checking I found that I had Windows Update set to automatically update and this newer driver was one of the updates. This time I changed the settings in Windows Update so I would be notified of updates instead of the auto install. Now I just make sure I uncheck the box to skip that driver update and don’t install it… A very minor hassle compared to the slow web page loads!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:31:14 +0000

Hi all guys. i search around for solution to this problem, here is a thread I found addressing the issue.

I followed the instructions given there but it helped for a while only, problem came back after a copula weeks.

http://itsvista.com/2007/02/itsvista-tip-37-why-certain-web-sites-are-slow-in-vista/

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:08:28 +0000

Hay turning off the phishing filter worked for me. Much faster now. They really shouldn’t make that a default setting as the slow page loading had me using Firefox.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:48:03 +0000

I have the same problem IE 7 slow with laotop medion…antivirus bullgard…whats gong on…it wasnt slow before and i havent change anything really thanks

By: David

David — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:40:41 +0000

Bought Dell laptop with Vista a couple of months ago and IE7 crashed every time the cursor was moved over a link. Pruning of Add ons solved the problem but after a couple of weeks IE7 became impossibly slow (with or without Add ons) and I replaced it with Firefox. I tried IE7 occasionally and until about 4 or 5 days ago, it was still slow. Today, it’s miraculously OK. Anyone got any suggestions as to what is going on?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:58:12 +0000

Hi!

I have the same problem as discribed above. IE was not slow from the beginning, but it became slow 2 weeks after fresh Vista installation.

I have guinine Vista Bussiness x64, so I also downloaded and tried to install this phising filter fix, but I also got the same message: “This update does not apply to your system.”

I also have unchecked “auto detect settings”.

Has someone found the working solution yet?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:21:25 +0000

This has been driving me crazy too. Slow to load new tabs on multiple OEM Vista laptops and workstations. Biggest impact came from two things:

1) Disabling the GOOGLE toolbar addons (my IE7 showed two google addons). The speed of opening in a new tab improved 100%. Wonder if each tab causes some reload of the Google DLL or related processes.

2) Disabled (uncheck) “auto detect settings” in IE tools>options>connections>Lan-settings caused a 100% improvement in the initial load speed of IE7 from the desktop shortcut.

Hope this helps you too.

-Adrian

By: Arch

Arch — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:14:13 +0000

I have the same problem. Eliminating the phishing did not speed it up.It is so slow that it oftens times out. Recently I had to reformat the HD . After reformatting it worked fine until I installed my printer/scanner and that is when the problem started. I use Firefox with no problem but some microsoft programs use IE to download information and that is when it times out.

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:42:53 +0000

Let me guess…you have McAfee security software pre-installed when you bought the computer. That is the source of the problem. I uninstalled McAfee (and replaced it with another) and now webpages snap open on IE7. A search of the web shows that this has solved the problem for many others as well