Slow Internet Expolrer 8 – Another Fix
I found something else over at Ed Bott’s site that has helped some people get their Internet Explorer 8 installation running up to speed:
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Ed Bott: IE8 slow? Maybe this tweak will help
Update 28-March: As I said in the original intro to this post, I was reluctant to publish this tweak, because I have absolutely no explanation for why it should work. If someone else had posted this, I would have assumed it was snake oil and would have been extremely skeptical. As skeptical as Rafael Rivera, even.
Actxprxy.dll is one of the core libraries for Internet Explorer (along with a few others such as Urlmon.dll and Mshtml.dll). If it’s not properly registered, IE won’t work at all. And re-registering it should never be necessary except in extreme circumstances.
Having said all that, I can only point to the experience I reported in the post linked below, which has since been confirmed by others in comments and e-mails. Are they all experiencing placebo effects? That’s possible, I guess. It’s also possible that some third-party software or add-on is somehow screwing up this DLL and its associated registry settings. I have contacted some engineers at Microsoft to see if they can shed light on the issue and will follow-up after I hear from them. more…..
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-bfs
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i upgraded to IE8 (with zonealarm 8 ) and started to have this problem.
then i used googles chrome, it worked a bit better but still similair problems.
i tried the solutions here but still having issues.
today i installed firefox 3.6.2 that works much better.
so far no delay found from the 10 sites i visited.
while chrome and IE8 are having difficulties with those same sites
so there is a conflict somewhere between IE8/chrome and zonealarm that makes browsing very slow or not opening at all.
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Thanks Ed. Your fix worked !!! after trying a dozen other fixes that failed. I am very impressed and grateful.