could be spyware. try Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.
evilmonkey29
Junior Poster in Training
71 posts since Aug 2002
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Do other Internet applications open right away? Try changing your homepage??
cscgal
The Queen of DaniWeb
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Do you have a lot of add-in toolbars, like Alexia, Google, etc? Do you use popup blocking software? I find that a combination of all of these, especially popup blocking software dramaticly slowes down the IE launch.
Tekmaven
Software Architect
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For my IE, i put my homepage as about:blank without that space after about. It loads much faster this way.
senterstyle
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