Odd behaviour of IE on WinXP

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CWatters

I've been noticing some odd behaviour for a few weeks now. I initially
thought this was just my ISP or the internet but now I'm not so sure. I have
a broadband connection and it goes like this...

It's all working normally for hours then...
Click on a link and nothing seems to happen.
Wait, wait and wait some more.
Think "Oh bother it's stopped again" (not "oh that site is slow")
Open a new IE window.
Select History.
Click on the same link as above and get more or less _instant_ response.
Several mins later the original window is still showing an hour glass but
sometimes the page is returned after a few mins.

If I stop the page fetch and click on the link again it has no effect - only
opening a new window seems to fix it.

I know that each attempt to load a page might be using a different route on
the internet but it doesn't feel like that. The page doesn't appear slowly.
It either arrives instantly or "instantly but after a very long delay".

This seems to be repeatable. Every time it stalls I can fix it by opening a
new window.

Is there an explanation? Solution?
 
C: you might try:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.inetexployer.ie6_outlookexpress
I hope this helps.
 
Hi Larry,

Thanks but I'm having problems firing up the link you posted. I get a
message saying that the news group doesn't exixt on the
news://msnews.microsoft.com server.

Colin
 
Click Tools Newsgroups and choose another
Click to expand...

Which one? There are loads with "Microsoft" + "public" + Windowsxp" but I
can't see one containing...

"inetexployer.ie6_outlookexpress"

or variations.
 
Because there isn't. That why I said choose another. I have no idea why you were referred to an OE NG in the first place, especially as it doesn't exist. Correct me if I'm wrong but you didn't mention OE in your post. As the group didn't exist and was wrong group if it did it didn't occur to me to mention it.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie6.browser

I would have just put Inetexplorer in the box and see what came up, or ie6.
 
Hi Colin,

It's because the english newsgroups use "inetexplorer", not "inetexployer".

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
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