IE6 SP1 hanging CPU???

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TonyG

It could be coincidence, but since I installed IE6 SP1 the other day, the
computer has started to hang for periods of several seconds - no cursor,
nothing - but it seems only when I have IE6 open. Outlook express suffers a
similar problem, but not a total hang, just sticky menus when it's open (1-2
seconds).

There could be other issues, so I will describe where I am at. I have just
reinstalled Win2000 after a major crash. Ground up reinstall three days ago
from a formatted hard disk. NTFS install on a tested hard disk running two
partitions - one for OS and one for image backups. System is a PIII 650 MHz,
128 MB PC133 RAM, 15 GB HDD on its own IDE channel, CD-RW and DVD-R on
second IDE channel, ZIP 100 on parallel port (no disk in), TNT 2 Ultra 32 MB
graphics card and PCI 288Q3D sound card (installed using 4D Wave drivers).
Connected to the net using a USB cable modem.

Win 2000 has had all service packs up to SP3 applied. I am going to try
applying SP4 today and see what happens. I have not applied any SPs since
installing IE6.1

Other relevant software running is Zone Alarm Pro, Norton AV 2003 and MS
Office 2000.

Any suggestions very warmly welcomed. I am running out of ideas for this
one.

Tony
 
Have you installed all the latest updates for NAV 2003? You can check by
running live update manually.
 
I have this issue too, and I'm not using NAV.

The ONLY thing that clears it is a restart.

GUI becomes unbearably slow, menus take 1-3 sec. to pop
up, starting apps takes forever, screen repaints happen a
block at a time, etc.

Mem usage, OK, paging OK, CPU % OK, just horrible
performance until restart.

Sometimes I'll get through a whole day of work and it'll never happen,
sometimes I'll only be 15 min. into a session.

If I didn't need IE6 to run .NET 2003, I'd go back to 5.5 SP2
in a heartbeat...

It sucks, and needs to be fixed, big-time.
 
Yes, all NAV2003 updates are installed. It is a fairly random problem.
Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it is totally unworkable. Sometimes OE6
takes an eternity to open a message, and sometimes IE6 just hangs pages for
up to 30 seconds. Not quite the same problem as Vance was describing, but
hell nonetheless. Feels like either memory hang or an interrupt hang, or
perhaps trying to access something in conflict (disk area, RAM)???

Tony

Is there any way to go back from IE6.1 to IE5.5??? I don't need it at all.
 
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