ENW slow on home comp through IE

[Quasqueton]

ENWorld is *VERY* slow on my home computer through Internet Explorer (fine and speedy on my work computer with IE). This has just started in the past week. It is not only slow, but it locks up IE while its loading a ENW page, so i can't even leave it. I've had to change my home page to something else just so I can surf the web without having to wait 5 minutes for ENW to load.

I just tried getting here through Netscape, and everything is fast as it should. So the problem is with my home IE. I haven't done anything or changed anything in IE this week, so I don't have a clue what the problem could be. After writing that sentence, I remember I did clear my cookies and history this week, but that's all. Would that have caused a problem? There is no problem/slowness with any other web site. Only ENW on my home computer through IE.

Anyone got suggestions, advice, hints? Please help me. This is driving me mad.

Quasqueton

 

[Greylock]

This has just started in the past week. It is not only slow, but it locks up IE while its loading a ENW page, so i can't even leave it.

I've been meaning to point this out as well. The last several days I've had IE (MSN) completely freeze up trying to get here. I can surf to my hearts content, but the moment I try to load up ENWorld, *poof*. Rebooting is all I can do, and it can take several.

Works fine in Firefox, but I tend to use IE more.

 

[Michael Morris]

Site is loading fine for me under IE. Which version of IE? Any javascript errors?

 

[BSF]

I generally use Firefox at home and IE at work. I haven't seen any problems with the site. Which OS are you running at home? And as Michael asked, which version of IE?

 

[Quasqueton]

IE 6.0

Windows XP Home

But none of this has changed in the past few days (since i got this new comp 1.5 years ago). And I have no slow down with other web sites. Good to see I'm not the only one.

Quasqueton

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Mostly, the only times I've had the site lag was when I'd forget to shut off Norton Autoprotect (antivirus) and it screws with AOL in a major way!

 

[Greylock]

I'm using MSN 9. Not sure how that translates to IE, but it's the latest. And nope, it's not lag that gets me. My pc completely locks up, about every fourth or fifth time I try to log in. And once it happens I can be assured of having to reboot several times before getting in. Just started in the last week, like Quasqueton says.

 

[IronWolf]

I checked with IE6 all patched up on an XPSP2 machine. It worked fine and I tried it a few times after closing and re-opening. Probably not the greatest test as I browse with FireFox 99.9% of the time. But... Darth K'Trava may be on to something. Perhaps it is some AV Program, Spyware app, pop-up blocker (not that EnWorld is using pop-ups) is having some issues? Maybe a recent definition update or app update to some common piece of software like that started causing the issues?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

IE 6.0

Windows XP Home

Ditto, but mine works great!

 

[Quasqueton]

Perhaps it is some AV Program, Spyware app, pop-up blocker (not that EnWorld is using pop-ups) is having some issues? Maybe a recent definition update or app update to some common piece of software like that started causing the issues?

I didn't do anything like this "manually". How would I find out if it was done "automatically"? If this problem was with all web sites, or with my IE at work, I'd figure it was my hardware/software. But this is only a problem on my home computer, through IE, and only on ENW. I figured something must have been updated/changed on this site.

Has me completely stymied.

Quasqueton