IE8 Dragging

GlynD

waddler_8 wrote: »

It shouldn't - SDHelper is a BHO, the web shield filters HTTP traffic and MBAM has the IP blocker. All 3 have an effect on your browsing so by turning them off it should only have a favourable effect on your browsing speeds. Add to that turning them off frees up other resources (RAM).

I would agree with what you say but genuinely the performance of the browser became even more stilted when I turned them off.

GlynD

At last, the answer. Taken from here: http://ie8slow.com/ it has worked for me and I'm considering that many of us who take advice from here run Spybot Search & Destroy.

It turns out that Spybot Search and Destroy, and possibly some other spyware/malware removal/prevention programs, load up IE8 with a large number of sites in the restricted zone, which in turn slows IE8 to a crawl on startup and when opening new tabs.
The fix? Remove them.
In an attempt to remove all the sites – and there were a lot – all in one shot, I reinstalled Spybot and then uninstalled it again, but the sites still remained in the restricted sites list. Before resorting to manual removal, I hit google again to see if there was a quick way to remove all the sites from the restricted list at once. The answer came in the form of an .inf file called deldomains.inf , which, as the name sort of implies, removes all domains from the browser’s restricted zone.
So, here are the steps:

1. Download deldomains.inf from the author’s web site
   (Right-click and select: Save Target As)
2. Locate and right-click the deldomains.inf file you just downloaded, and in the context menu, click ‘install’

If you get an ‘Unknown Publisher’ warning, click ‘Open’
If everything worked properly – and there’s very little that can go wrong with this procedure – your restricted sites list will be empty and your installation of IE8 shold now be flying right along with no more delays or high CPU usage.

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did you install spyware blaster at any point?

There's stil quite a lot of bloat on that system, O4's etc.

waddler_8

waddler_8 wrote: »

Turn off Spybot's TeaTimer & SDhelper,

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waddler_8

GlynD wrote: »

It turns out that Spybot Search and Destroy, and possibly some other spyware/malware removal/prevention programs, load up IE8 with a large number of sites in the restricted zone, which in turn slows IE8 to a crawl on startup and when opening new tabs.

I remember this from the time IE8 was released - It was supposedly fixed some time ago.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/06/09/ie-june-09-security-update-now-available.aspx#9725122

EricLaw_-_MSFT._Thursday,_June_11,_2009_1:52_AM wrote:

@hAl: This update should resolve the performance/stability issue encountered by users with huge numbers of sites in the Restricted Zone.

GlynD

The fault doesn't lie with IE8 gentlemen. The fault lies with the way Spybot S&D works. Install the author's fix and it works much better. I can clearly see the results.

BTW this machine is fully up to date.

waddler_8

GlynD wrote: »

What have I done to try and speed it up?

1. Cache clearout and defrag.
2. Run CC Cleaner.
3. Set IE8 to default settings.

This deletes all sites in the intranet, trusted, or restricted zones.

They're not re-added by Spybot unless you re-immunise.

GlynD

All I can do is report the results I'm getting.