Browsers: Browsers Very Sluggish

Spybot's Tea-Timer?

by MarkFlax  - 11/4/09 3:53 AM

I would uninstall both Spybot and Lavasoft's AdAware. Spybot's Tea-Timer, if it is running, can conflict with today'scombined anti-virus and anti-spyware scanners such as AVG, Avast, Norton's McAfee, and so on, as they will be fighting each other to scan files and components. Similarly, AdAware's WebAware component can also cause conflicts.

If uninstalling doesn't improve the problem, you can always re-install them.

With IE, we find that add-ons, such as BHOs, (Browser Helper Objects), ActiveX, 3rd party toolbars, etc, often cause IE problems. Try IE8 in it's Safe Mode, available from the Start Menu, All programs > Accessories > System Tools > IE (No Add-ons). That will start IE8 without any add-ons and while web sites may not display properly, it can indicate if any add-ons are causing performance/speed problems.

Similarly with Firefox. Firefox has its own Safe Mode;
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Try that, and see if Firefox navigates faster.

If either of those improve performance, then your next task, should you choose to accept it, is to find the offending add-ons,

Mark