Webpages taking ages

[pin4apple]

Hi im new to this forum, my computer is running fast but for some reason recently its taking a very long time for the web pages to load up, it starts up quick and everything but i think it might be something ive done, it might be something simple, i recently cut out stuff from the STARTUP menu so its quicker on loading and ive done disck defrag and cleanup and all that, can someone tell me if ive deleted something or what to look for, im running AOL, it was ok before but was running a little slower than normal, its running fast now it just the web pages wont fire up and when i click on a link again it takes a long time, the blue bar does not load at all then suddenly about a minute or so later it loads really quickly, thankyou Donna

 

[MrNeeds]

Hi im new to this forum, my computer is running fast but for some reason recently its taking a very long time for the web pages to load up, it starts up quick and everything but i think it might be something ive done, it might be something simple, i recently cut out stuff from the STARTUP menu so its quicker on loading and ive done disck defrag and cleanup and all that, can someone tell me if ive deleted something or what to look for, im running AOL, it was ok before but was running a little slower than normal, its running fast now it just the web pages wont fire up and when i click on a link again it takes a long time, the blue bar does not load at all then suddenly about a minute or so later it loads really quickly, thankyou Donna

are you running AOL software? because it is completely unnecessary, theres no reason for it to be there at all, just slows your system down.

 

[pin4apple]

Hi AOL is the broadband user we use so need to run it, i was just saying thats who we use, sorry

 

[mansrm81]

You can use any browser software as long as your connected so your not limited to using the aol browser.

 

[pin4apple]

You can use any browser software as long as your connected so your not limited to using the aol browser.

Does this mean i can use internet explorer, i do like AOL though, im quite used to it now, do you know why the web pages are taking so long, it might be something i have done though, i have cleaned it all up, its running lovely apart from when it loads a web page

 

[kword88]

aol appears fast because it stores a lot of its content in your temporary folders, so when you open a web page, its actually loading from your computer. when you ran system cleanup, you flushed all the stored info in the temp folders, so now your browser has to retrieve fresh copies.

 

[mansrm81]

You can use any browser software as long as your connected so your not limited to using the aol browser.

Does this mean i can use internet explorer, i do like AOL though, im quite used to it now, do you know why the web pages are taking so long, it might be something i have done though, i have cleaned it all up, its running lovely apart from when it loads a web page

Yes you can use IE, Firefox or any other browser you like to use.

 

[pin4apple]

You know something you are right and this site is very helpful so thanx guys, ive just done something i read about in the vista topics section, and it took about an hr and half but when i opened IE its fast, i mean its fab so thanx and i will keep this in my favs DD:D

 

[mansrm81]

Your welcome pin4apple and welcome to the forum.