I'm not going to run and say "IE sucks and go use an alternative browser such as Mozilla". But to be perfectly honest, installing Mozilla would be a great first step to debug this issue. It will determine whether the problem is with the computer or just the Internet Explorer web browser.

You say it's a server computer? Is there a lot of stuff running in the background that might slow it down? What firewalls and antivirus solutions are installed?

YAY! I know why it is running slow!

Ok, I have Norton Personal Firewall, and its always enabled. When i disabled the firewall to visit a blocked website it was back at its normal speed! But i can't have it disabled all the time so what should i do?

Oh, and it started getting slow when the resubscription dialog box came up saying i need to resubscribe soon. Could the two be linked?

Thanks

Ryan

Since you said Mozilla was slow too, reinstalling IE probably won't help, but it won't hurt either.

After you run SpyBot, reboot and then run Ad Aware; one of those programs will often catch something that the other didn't detect. Tell us what happens after that.

Umm... Kazaa, huh? Methinks you've answered your own question right there. :mrgreen:

Kazaa and other filesharing programs are chock full of all sorts of spyware nasties, many of which attack and modify IE. As Dani suggested, try Mozilla, firefox, or Opera as an alternative to IE; those browsers aren't prone to much of the "malware" that infects IE.

If you can't pinpoint the slowdown, I'd suggest running SpyBot, Ad Aware, and HijackThis to check your system for malware. These programs are free to download, and they work well:

SpyBot: http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
HijackThis and CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

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