chrome? I tried it and found it to be a resource hog. chrome does what it does well, but is it a full-featured browser?
Between Mozilla Firefox and Opera 10 Beta 2, I haven't encountered a website that needs IE. I have both installed. If a website doesn't work in FF, it'll work in Opera, and the other way around. I never use IE. Ever. >Or switch to chrome... > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of John Toliver >Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:51 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: thinkpad >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Windows Explorer very sluggish or stops responding > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:15, RayBay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Internet Explorer 8.0 has been guilty for a lot of the slowdowns, >> which are wisespread among Windows XP and Windows Vista users... You >> might try uninstalling it, then booting with Internet Explorer 6.11 or >> 7.0 for a while... do an online search for the variety of problems in >> IE8 that cause slow downs. >> > >I uninstalled IE8. It took me back to IE 6 :-). The thing I missed about >IE6 was if I were in my computer, I could put in a web address in the >address bar and windows explorer became internet explorer without missing a >beat so I get to enjoy that for a while so I test the change. One thing I >noted immediately was windows didn't whine and complain on restart. It went >down and came back up without my intervention. I'll keep testing these >changes for a few days to see if IE8 was the culprit. That would be bad if >it were because I actually like IE8. > > >> I would remove Spybot. It really does nothing useful, and has some >> programs that slow down windows a lot... It is merely a Cookies >> remover, and of course all the cookies come back anyway... at least the >safe ones do. > >I didn't know spybot was no good. Will remove later though. I don't want >to remove too much at one time and skew my test. > >> >> Instead, I would use Windows Defender, MalwareBytes, and >> SuperAntiSpyware, and see what infestations they find and remove. > > >I already have Windows Defender. Defender is more quiet than all of them. > I forgot it was installed. All I know it does is it thrashes my HDD pretty >hard over night while it's doing scanning. > > >Matt: I checked the event log. I have nothing that would indicate system >errors related to explorer.exe. Been having weird problems with my wireless >card a broadcomm 2000BG. Keeps falling off the network and rejoining it. > My system EL is loaded with tcpip warnings but nothing on windows explorer. > I attribute those to my router though so I didn't mention it here earlier. > >Thanks all,-- >I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either learn >the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win situation! > -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
