December 6th 03, 11:38 PM
Strange. IE does do a lot of weird things. Personally,
I use Opera for everything that is not on Microsoft.com
to avoid a lot of weirdness and problems. Anyway, I
suggest you try defragmenting your harddrive. The best I
can think of is that IE has some cache files that have
been moved into an area that is on the other side of the
harddrive or something of that sort, which would slow it
down a bit I suppose. Anyway, defrag can only help
things, so doing it won't hurt. The only problem is that
it takes forever in latest versions of windows. Expect a
number of hours for it, so run it at night before you go
to sleep, and try to have nothing running that could
possibly write any changes to the harddrive.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a new Dell Dimension 8250 with Pentium 4 2.4 ghz
>processor, 512k ram and 2 hard drives (120 gig and 60
>gig). I also have a cable modem for the internet. I've
>been using the computer for video editing, surfing and e-
>mail. After finishing a video project, I deleted about
>70 gigs of video items from the big drive and 50 gigs
>from the other. Up to that point, whenever I clicked on
>Internet Explorer, it started up almost instantly, going
>to my home page. Now, it takes at least 15 seconds from
>the time I click on the IE icon before it finally goes
to
>the page. The same thing happens when I click on a link
>from my e-mail in Outlook. Other than starting so
>slowly, everything else works normally. I'm fairly
>certain I didn't delete anything but video files (from
>specific video capture folders) so I don't think I
>deleted anything pertaining to IE. Any suggestions?
>.
>
I use Opera for everything that is not on Microsoft.com
to avoid a lot of weirdness and problems. Anyway, I
suggest you try defragmenting your harddrive. The best I
can think of is that IE has some cache files that have
been moved into an area that is on the other side of the
harddrive or something of that sort, which would slow it
down a bit I suppose. Anyway, defrag can only help
things, so doing it won't hurt. The only problem is that
it takes forever in latest versions of windows. Expect a
number of hours for it, so run it at night before you go
to sleep, and try to have nothing running that could
possibly write any changes to the harddrive.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a new Dell Dimension 8250 with Pentium 4 2.4 ghz
>processor, 512k ram and 2 hard drives (120 gig and 60
>gig). I also have a cable modem for the internet. I've
>been using the computer for video editing, surfing and e-
>mail. After finishing a video project, I deleted about
>70 gigs of video items from the big drive and 50 gigs
>from the other. Up to that point, whenever I clicked on
>Internet Explorer, it started up almost instantly, going
>to my home page. Now, it takes at least 15 seconds from
>the time I click on the IE icon before it finally goes
to
>the page. The same thing happens when I click on a link
>from my e-mail in Outlook. Other than starting so
>slowly, everything else works normally. I'm fairly
>certain I didn't delete anything but video files (from
>specific video capture folders) so I don't think I
>deleted anything pertaining to IE. Any suggestions?
>.
>