Problem with net.

[Kavoc]

Ok, I tried going to 64bit a little over a week ago, and it was unstable, crashing and all kinds of things. So I went back to 32bit on Sunday evening. The problem I'm having is that half the time my websites will load. Like when I click on Firefox, it's waiting on a reply in the bottom left corner and doesn't do anything. Nothing happens at all. Same with IE7. What I don't get is why, when I rebooted my computer just now, it popped right up no problem, but most of the time it stops in mid process like it forgot where it was going. I know my system is caching and all that again, but the net is still not working correctly. I've released and renewed ip, I've uninstalled and reinstalled and all kinds of things, but it's still doing it more often than not. Anybody else have this problem when they went to vista and anybody have any advice?

It's only the web browsers, not my games, or messaging programs. Just the browsers.

 

[lordbob75]

Have you tried Chrome? Or safari? I am guessing you haven't, and i dont think it will fix it, but its worth a shot...

Have you tried reinstalling the OS?

 

[mansrm81]

Kavok how are you connecting to the internet with cable, router, dsl.

 

[AstaLaVista]

Hmmm, this is pretty much what is happening to me on every system and/or any other OS.

For instance, at the office, I have XP Pro w/SP3 and I had to switch from IE6 to Firefox because from time to time (very frequent), I would change from one site to another one and it would just stay there with the hour clock looping for a long time, I wouldn't be able to X out or anything until I Ctrl+Alt+Del and end process there. I swtich to FF and now it doesn't do it as constant as before (1 out of 10 instead of 8 out of 10 with IE6).

At the house, I run Vista x64 with IE7 and here it does it often enough that it is beginning to make me hate IE but since I am not use to FF, I try coping with it. Vista will try to recover but it doesn't do anything and sometimes, a hard cold boot is needed but, for the most part, ending the process will do and vista will reload IE7 again.

Since it is doing it on both OS's I don't really know what to think or what to try to fix but I know it is enough to make me angry at both XP & Vista or IE6 o 7.

Sorry for not helping, I was just thinking that if enough of us have this issue, there might be something we are doing wrong and find a solution for it.

 

[lordbob75]

Sounds like switching to FF would be easier. Also, try other browsers, such as Google's Chrome, or Safari. Even Netscape.

My dad has been having the same sort of problems, and i finally installed Chrome on there, and whenever he uses that, he has no problems. He is stubborn though, he really wants to use IE.

 

[AstaLaVista]

I have heard horrific things about Chrome, more horrific than the draconian Securom DRM for games as of late, so I have opted to stay away from it but I guess, it is time I read more about it... I used to feel the same way about Vista before SP1.

Nevertheless, I hate to walk away from a challenge and I would love to know what IE does this. I mean, it is a Microsoft software, it should work better with other MS devices, virus prone not withstanding, right?

 

[lordbob75]

You would think right?

In my experience, IE just sucks. At everything. I always thought it was cluttered, slow, and more targeted by viruses and such. I personally use FF, though Chrome worked well for me, and even my dad has no problems with it on his computer, which is a 10 year old zombie. He has had horrible issues with IE, though he persists in using it. FF ans Chrome give him no trouble though.