Thanks for info. don't need it now but will file it for later. just in case!
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Scott Corcoran <pogys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Zener, > > Thanks for the post. > > It is an upside down world. One would think that free software (Fedora > Linux) would have caveats like > you describe. But no, it auto-detected my cheap (old) graphics adapter and > set itself into fallback mode. > I am running Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) these days with > Firefox/Chrome/Opera and have had very few issues. > I am not surprised that unit sales of Windows 8 have dropped between > 10-15%. On older machines, > earlier versions of Fedora also work fine. > > > Scott Corcoranscott@pogysoft.com541-912-1395 > > On 3/1/2014 2:34 AM, Zener Stanfill wrote: > > I don't know how many of you this may affect, but I thought it useful > information to share. > > Case: > Windows 7 (any version could be affected) (Clean install or not) > Internet Explorer 9 and up > > When I ran Internet Explorer, the start up page would load, but instead > of seeing a webpage, all I saw was white. My cpu usage was pegged. I would > get an error message and click the close browser button. The browser just > kept throwing out the same error message over and over again. > > When I disabled the Display Adapter (video card) in Device Manager, IE > worked just fine. > > I discovered a setting that can be used in Internet Options that fixes > this problem. IE by default, uses GPU (Graphics Processing Unit aka Video > Card) rendering for its webpages. If you have a wimpy (cheap) Graphics > Adapter like the one in the machine I'm working on, it won't be able to > give IE what it wants/needs. So instead, IE needs to use Software rendering. > > In an ideal world, (hint, hint microsoft...), IE would detect this > conflict and automatically fix this issue with no user intervention. Until > then, some of us need to do things the manual way. > > Here's the trick: > Open the Internet Options (do this in the Control Panel>Network and > Internet>Internet Options). > Click Advanced tab. > In the Settings section, find Accelerated graphics (for me it was at the > top of the list.) > Put a check mark next to: Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering. > Click OK. > Run IE. All is fine... > > The information about this conflict and resolution can be found at: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338138.aspx > in the section titled: > "Internet Explorer is crashing or seems slow". > Note: The microsoft page references IE 11. As I stated earlier, this > affects IE 9 and up. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Eugene PC User Group's mailing list > Write to this list at: pcusers@epcug.net > > To unsubscribe just send an email to: epcug-unsubscr...@epcug.net > > To change your maillist options or view the archive > visit:http://epcug.net/mailman/listinfo/pcusers_epcug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Eugene PC User Group's mailing list > Write to this list at: pcusers@epcug.net > > To unsubscribe just send an email to: epcug-unsubscr...@epcug.net > > To change your maillist options or view the archive visit: > http://epcug.net/mailman/listinfo/pcusers_epcug.net > > -- The only reason people gets lost in thought is because it is unfamiliar territory!
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