IE 7 Slow Page Loading
I have been using Internet Explorer 7 for a few days now and I have noticed a significant load time difference for certain web pages from IE 6 to 7. Sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds for a page to completely load. It seems to be hanging on certain images in pages. Anyone else experiencing this? I even bypassed my personal firewall and it had no change. Firefox and IE 6 loaded these same pages in 1-3 seconds.
So far I am really annoyed with IE 7. I am really annoyed with myself.
UPDATE
I did some more tests and after watching my network load when IE is trying to access a page its receiving 12k/sec and sending out 7k/sec for more than 30 seconds. I know for a fact that the page is not that large. It is like it is hanging on something. I’ve only seen this problem on www.indiefy.com in the artist admin.
UPDATE
After reviewing the HTTP headers I have found that this issue was my fault. DOH! My site is using a custom 404 a page that I had not created yet. When IE 7 tried to access a page that wasn’t there it was forwarded to the 404 page which was forwarded again to the 404 page. Basically it was in a constant loop. This issue was my fault and not IE 7’s. I retract my statements about IE 7 from earlier. Its growing on me.
My name is Noah Everett. I live in Tulsa, OK. I started 
Try to launch IE7 without add-ons. It’s much faster without add-ons.
You can launch IE7 without add-ons by:
- right click IE icon on desktop and select Start without add-ons.
- go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)
Thanks for the tip! I did not notice that option was there.
I have installed IE7 on two PC’s and nearly all pages take three times as long to load. With the phishing feature turned off. One machine has been running for about a month on a new image in a corporate environment and the other was a fresh image on my home PC. So its unlikely any addins are affecting the install. In fact I rarely browse the web so I am fairly confident that nothing has been installed.
Also after IE7 would load initial page then it could not open and links on any pages or open pages in another tab window. It would say that the internet connection was unavailable. I installed Netscape 7.2 and it performed the exact same way as IE7. Unistalled IE 7 and everything worked fine. This was not the BETA version. It is the version being pushed by automatic updates.
I would have to say this is the most poorly performing browser release to date by microsoft.
I am the general manager of a manufacturing company and our IT manager updated two of our pc’s to IE7. The performance was horrible.
The application itself takes much longer to load than IE6 and it also takes much longer to load web pages. We’ve read all the tips to speed things up and they do not work.
In short, the problems with IE7 make it unacceptable for use in our company and we have uninstalled it and reverted back to IE6. No doubt Microsoft knew their new product was a “lemon” which explains why they’ve gone out of their way to notify users they can refuse the new download or unstall it if they’re unhappy with it.
I keep giving IE7 a shot because some that have installed it love it. But it is horribly slow and actually stalls most of the time. Firefox and Crazy Browser work fine as does the older version of IE but IE7 just doesn’t perform well on my machine. I’m disappointed because I’d like to use it but it’s just a clunker. I keep my machine pretty clean with routine maintenance and it’s a Dell desktop that I bought last summer.
I reverted to IE6 as well. The webpages loaded fine. The application itself had a horrible loading time. Seriously the worst browser ever considering it always takes 2-5 seconds more for it to load. I open and close browsers quickly, and this just slows me down.
I installed it yesterday morning and I uninstall it right after I finish this post. The main reason why I will go back to IE6 is because IE7 is too damn slow for me. I am so disappointed at that release. I like Microsoft products but they really getting on my nerves when they take so much time building something that works well the first time….
Vista will not run fast if you don’t have a killer machine, .NET applications are slower in many cases (at least at startup), and now IE7 is horribly slow …. What’s happening? Really?
IE7 takes 100% of my processor power while loading a page and it takes the page several seconds to load. Just try loading several tabs at once! You cannot do anything until some of them get loaded. I am uninstalling it NOW.
Yeah, I’m considering uninstalling IE7 too. I was really interested to see the new features, but the only improvements seem to be the tabbing and while I appreciate that I don’t think it’s worth the extreme loading time for each page and the app itself… Although I do like that I’m not constantly nagged by that annoying autocomplete dialog. No, I would not like to save this pass, for the last time!
IE7 is slow…..period. Slow in all aspects. I’ver gone to firefox 2,0. Too bad, 7 has some nice things.
Im not happy with this update being forced out, this should be a slective update, be write bespoke software and it would apear our software has stoped running on some HP systems, appaling slap happy atitude ….was it realy that hard to ad tabs to a browser, this to me would seem to be the only major change! (one I like) but with all the issues I am seeing with the use of IE7 ill be using somthing else
My IE7 was dead slow unitl I turned of ClearText. Now it runs as quick as 6.
I’m also faced the same problem. But after resetting CustomeError pages in Web.Config file its working fine.
I loaded IE7 and also experienced drastic slowdowns. Unfortunately now that I have uninstalled it and reverted back to IE6, there is some lingering lag in loading pages (esp pages with graphics). Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone have advice as to how to fix?
Please tell us how to “reset CustomError pages in Web.Config.
Many thanks
Try opening Internet Options on the Tools Menu, go to the Security tab and click default settings, then go to Content tab, under the Autocomplete section click on Settings and clear all the checked boxes and under the Feeds section click on settings and uncheck all the checked boxes. These actions appear to have reduced the lag for some reason, I have no idea why, and maybe this is only temporary. You can go back and check the boxes in the content section, for now it appears to not create lag again. I don’t know if this has a permanent effect either, since I just did all this while searching for explanations on why IE 7 is soooo sloooowwwwwwww, I also read somewhere else it’s really hard ot revert back to IE 6, and I do like the features of IE 7.
Ok Well, if you are running the Beta 2 or Beta 3 version of IE 7 then yes it is hard to uninstall and revert back to IE 6, but it is possible and the “How To” is located on the http://support.microsoft.com wepage. However, if you are running OE Windows XP Home Edition, and have installed IE 7 via automatic updates or as a non-beta version, then go to your Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs, and highlight IE 7 and click Remove. This will revert you automatically back to your IE 6 version of the web brower. I too have encoutered this lagging with IE 7, but now that I have reverted back to IE 6, the lagging still exists. Anyone have any suggestions for that?
Installed IE7 and it ran slow. Tried to google “slow IE7″ but the page took more than a minute to come up (even with cable modem). Processor at 100% for IE. Two words…system restore! Or switch back to firefox!
Hi, i uninstalled IE7 after all the hassle of slow loading times. Gone back to IE 6, how ever now the rpoblem hasn’t left as i thought it would. Help????
Same issues here! Slow Slow Slow……Turned off Anti-phishing it helped a little……..what a miserable mess! Time to get a fix or uninstall!!
Twahl
My original install of IE7 didn’t have any problems. I downloaded Java from Sun Microsystems and the speed went to a dialup. I disabled the add-on from Sun ssvhelper_class (Tools - Manage add-ons) and it’s back to the original speed. I can still view Java web pages.
My downloads most of the time hangs at 99% with IE7. I really wish to revert back to IE6. If you know the way please me know. I cannot use system restore as I’ve installed other programs after installing IE7.
Have tried taking IE7 using Control Panel, Add or remove Windows Program, then reinstalling IE6. But the Windows still insist that IE7 is there and refuse to install IE6. very frustrating.
Thanks
I just uninstalled IE 7 and went back to IE 6 and the speed of my page loading went up, I dare to say, 100%!
Maybe it will work better with Vista?
Just as bad in Vista!
Same thing here guys……yawn
Very slow. I also hate how everything is moved around. I find myself clicking wrong icons out of habit. So long ie7…….in a nutshell….U SUCK!
I Also disabled the add-on from Sun ssvhelper_class (Tools - Manage add-ons) and it’s back to the original speed. Try it. You will see the difference
ya.. everytime i use IE7 more than 3 tabs of explorer, my performance will get higher until 100% in 3-5minutes… is it a bug?? a terrible bug in IE7?? anyone report to microsoft ???
especially running a website got a lot of *gif *swt * jpeg.. u’ll know your computer is becoming FOOL.. -.-
IE7 bites!! wtf is Microsoft thinkin g. Its even cause my FF2 to be a mess. Cant even open https pages now. Nice one BILL!!!!
To really help speed things up in IE7 go to this website and download the fix
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/speedup-internet-explorer-7-by-increasing-the
By default IE7 only has 2 connections to the server, this fix opens all 16 and dramatically increases speed.
I found launch with-out add-ons worked. So I went through all my add-ons to see which one caused the problem and found just disabling the IE DevToolbar BHO(IEDevToolbar.dll) add-on fixed my slow page load problem.
It was running slow for me too. I even wiped the whole PC clean and started from scratch (needed to anyway). Still slow. However it seems fine on my laptop…of course can’t remember what I’ve disabled on that one (other than phising). I don’t think disabling all the add-ons is a good option because ultimately I need those or nothing works right.
So…I tried disabling the “Clear Type” (options > advanced > multimedia) as suggested above. That seemed to help and I seem to remember disabling that on the laptop. Either that was the trick or I’m becoming more patient.
I wonder if disabling other options under multimedia would help too.
ie 7 is a complete piece of sh**, sorry for the language. people dont need to be computer wizards in order to use a web browser so they are not supposed to “tweak” any settings…..
Here’s a collection of tuning tips that can greatly improve IE7 performance:
http://reliancepc.com/ReliancePC/Tips/IE7tuning/IE7tuning.html
I have IE 7 installed on my Dell laptop as well as Vista, but I have a killer 3.2 Pentium processor as well as two gigs of ram, so it runs just fine and I didn’t give it a thought until IE 7 was installed on my much older desktop with 512 megs of ram and a much slower processor. IE 7 would just hang forever, so I just use Firefox on my desktop.
I’m wondering if Microsoft didn’t originally design IE 7 to compliment Vista users and those machine with enough power to run it, but then somewhere along the way made the bonehead blunder of sending it out to everyone through updates.
Struggled with EI7 for 7-8 weeks since accepting its push, slower than dial up, pages hanging, the usual. Tried selecting & deselecting options, was convinced the PC was going round & round so I tried registry purges, still no success. Finally tried decided that it must be EI7, so typed “EI7 slow” in my Goggle Bar add-on, found this site, disabled add-ons, whiz bang back to full speed again, thanks acchong . Am sure I’ll have to start activating some again but me8up’s Java comment sounds familiar.
I must be the only one who thinks it’s cool.
IE7 is the WORST BROWSER EVER!!!!!!!!
IE7 has so many prompts and questions, why can’t it just work?
WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE MICROSOFT FOLKS IN REDMOND DOING?
5+ YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT TO ROLL-OUT CRAP????
BILL NEEDS TO COMEBACK TO PULL THE REIGNS ON THESE KIDS…
CRAPPY ASS IE7 BITCHES!
Download the performance patch from Microsoft which slows IE7 on Vista.
This update resolves a performance issue with the Internet Explorer Phishing Filter when visiting web pages that contain multiple frames or when multiple frame navigations occur quickly.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B0AA2270-D034-4A49-B3BD-C7FBD0CA90DF&displaylang=en
I have been bugged by the same problems over the past 2 weeks and nothing suggested here worked. Finally it came to my mind what a cable technician told me in the past to reboot my modem and router, and BINGO my internet speed came back. I have an old D-link DI524. First off I logged on to the router and on the home page clicked “Run Wizzard”, this will kinda give you a refresh set up for the router. After that I unplugged both the modem and router and connected them back after maybe 5 minutes and there I go I have my problem resolved!!
just uninstalled the bag of sh** aka as ie7 but my ie6 is now just as slow! what can i do?
I installed IE 7 a couple days ago. It’s painfully slow. But I like the security features on it. Well, I checked out Mozilla Firefox 2, and it is awesome. It’s lightning fast, and is even better security features than IE 7.
There’s no reason no go with IE now that we have Mozilla.
I thought about going back to IE 6, but this is not safe because of all the fraud sites and hackers out there.
Mozilla is the only way to go.
Disabling the Sun ssvhelper_class (Tools - Manage Add-ons - currently loaded in IE) as in me8up’s suggestion was brilliant. IE7 is back to normal.
Tried pretty much evrything to get IE 7 working properly… but couldn’t get it to an acceptable speed (most tricks speed it up a little … but not enough for me).
Installed FireFox 3 … it works like a charm and I’m back to lightning speed access to the Internet.
I may comeback one day to IE … if MS fire all the crappy programmers who worked on IE7 and release a product that is decent.
” I disabled the add-on from Sun ssvhelper_class (Tools - Manage add-ons) and it’s back to the original speed.”
Same here. I only use IE7 because of the StumbleUpon toolbar.
Opera is a fantastic browser, fast and reliable.
My computer came with Vista and IE7 was so slow there were times I thought that it was hung up or it crashed.
By disabling add-ons one at a time I found out that it was the Shockwave Flash Player that was slowing me up.
Now IE7 is very fast and I only enable Shockwave when I need it.
This has been driving me crazy too. Slow to load new tabs on multiple OEM Vista laptops and workstations. Biggest impact came from two things:
1) Disabling the GOOGLE toolbar addons (my IE7 showed two google addons). The speed of opening in a new tab improved 100%. Wonder if each tab causes some reload of the Google DLL or related processes.
2) Disabled (uncheck) “auto detect settings” in IE tools>options>connections>Lan-settings caused a 100% improvement in the initial load speed of IE7 from the desktop shortcut.
Hope this helps you too.
-Adrian
IE7 runs really slow for me too. Does anyone have a problem with the fact the Microsoft dictates what some of your Internet Settings are? - For example, if you set your Software Channel Permissions to “Low Safety” you’ll get a CONSTANT message to change it, and Microsoft has no clear instructions as to how to disable this.
I definitely don’t like Microsoft telling me how I can and cannot have my computer set-up, and I’m not sure we’ll ever see the day when we can completely uninstall Internet Explorer, only use another browser and have full functionality on the Internet and Windows in general. To me, it was ridiculous to install Netscape, but still have to have Internet Explorer installed since it’s integrated into Windows.
I had problems with IE7 Running slow,
I tried many of the fixes mentioned here, and it didnt really work. Only went a bit faster,
but then I tried one more thing, and it seems to have put it back at a good speed.
go to Tools>Internet Options>under Browsing History>Delete>and Delete all to do it quickly… if you want to keep your forms and passwords then do the other individually. That seemed to put me back to speed with IE7. Try it and see if that helps you.
I encountered this problem lately. I don’t usually use IE7 but Firefox. But need IE7 for web development. I timed it and it took me 90 seconds to finally load the first page in a tab window. Likewise opening a new tab window. Finally tracked it down to the Google toolbar add-on, after I disabled all add-ons currently loaded by IE7, the problem was resolved. Then I started enabling them one by one and test each time. Google Toolbar add-on was the culprit for some reason. Kept that disabled, and problem solved.
To get to the Add-ons Manager, click Tools->Manage Add-ons -> Enable or Disable add-ons.
Aha,
i think i have found a soution,
1) try > Right click internet explorer >> run as administrator it works fine while running as admin (although im loged in admin)
this doesnt help??
2) try rightclick>> internet explorer no adons >> run as admin should work fine,
need more help,?
shifty_leb_ at h0t mail dot c0m
Well IE7 was slow as hell for me also. So I found this site and read all of the post. What I have found to work for me is in toolbars there are checkmarks beside which tool you would like to have showing in IE7. Just unchecking them will not disable them completely so you have to go into (Manage Addons) and disable them there. I had a Stopzilla toolbar unchecked ,yet was obviously slowing down IE7 because when I disabled it in (Manage Addons ) BINGO. Fast like before .
My observation is that IE is really slow when directed to selected sites, especially GOOGLE. Is there a conspiracy?
I too have found the only thing that works is to fire up IE 7
“as administrator” but with the protected mode then turned off - does this compromise security?
Before this i couldn’t even open up file attachments in emails it keept non-responding and so sllooooooow.
Should i change to firefox - have also got norton 360 does this work on firefox?
Keep it simple - look at the very first comment about turning off add-ons
I turned them all off .
seems the one that has caused the problem is “send to one note” - now removed
google toolbar makes no difference!
I think its because you’re using non-optimized TCP-IP settings cache buffer or its stay in (manual)suspended mode that affects speed-download at least tune-up utilities 2008 and you see change-just run quick optimizer, choose your speed, but if you dont like pay this little money,hmm go to serials.ws and search for tune-up utilities.If this wouldn’t work reinstall IE7 in safe mode(it may install with bad configuration or dont migrate your IP correctly)
There is no question that the problem is the add ons. So I did this experiment. I took out each add on until I found the culprit. It is the Google tool bar that I have. I disabled it, and the browser loads immediately. I add it back, and I sit and wait. Try this before you go thru a bunch of other needless stuff.
how to make internet exsplorer fast again … this works
go tools manage add-ons …disable them all and try again if this works
you now no its a add on in my case it was interceptor pado
…so now turn them back on 1 at a time untill you find the 1 ..easy when you now how …good luck and i hope this helps you all just ask
sheriffdude
IE7 is really slow on big pages (like 3Mb)
For me, too, it was the Google toolbar. Once disabled, IE7 runs like a champ (but still slower than Firefox3, which is still beta).
I just installed IE7 because after installing WinXP SP3, IE6 became so f***ing slow… and besides, the windows updates keeps pushing it and it annoys me… so what the heck, i downgraded from my OEM Vista to WinXP to speed things up, didnt i… so i tried it…
i noticed that it is so slow only when loading the first page… say about 20 seconds for google.com… even win95 on dial-up is faster than that!!! after the first page, loading time of any page seems to be back to normal… paksyet…
i also noticed that this does not have the ssvhelper_class add on that you guys are talking about… i tried the thins mentioned here and this piece of sh!t still takes 20 seconds to load google.com…
is that the new trend of Microsoft products???
Vista - Slow
IE7 - Slow
WIndows 2008 — i would dare upgrade my servers with this crap…