Lag in switching between open IE windows

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Hi ! I have an annoying problem which I'd very much appreciate some help with
? There is a now noticeable delay when multiple browser (IE6) windows are
open, and I switch between each of them. If I select an alternative window,
there is a lag before I can A: even click on a tab or window in the
background, and B: for it then to open,,,sometimes as well, scrolling on an
active window is "stuttery" then goes fine. To cap it all.....there is often
delay in typing text into a window as well ?!
Please !! I'm so confused !
Thanks all..
 
As for your delay in inputting text on a web page, see this site for
possible help:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/55.html

As for your screen delay problem, there could be an issue with your video
drivers. IE puts more demands on your video card than almost any other
programs outside of games and CAD/CAM or video/photo editing software. Go
to the web site of your video card manufacturer and get the latest drivers
for your card. As a work around, try turning down your hardware
acceleration, color depth, and/or screen resolution. If these work, then
new drivers are in order.

If no joy, you may have a spyware/malware issue, so read on....

Use Ad-Aware, Windows Defender and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.

Windows Defender (beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
 
Jon - thanks very much for this - the weird thing is that when I have several
browser windows open, I've now noticed that everything slows down (yet I did
have a perfectly working 2048MB Ram, 3.4hz intel 4 system ?! ) I've tried
sweeping for all spyware etc, no luck, the display driver appears to be the
latest - its sooo strange !
 
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