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by kurt.edwins

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Win 98 and IE 5.
when i start up a browser sesion,my IE starts,dials succeffuly and then hangs for a bout 2 mins.Then it loads and i can surf.
What is causing this lag?becuse its almost impossible to use.You have to wait for the hang to end wenever u start a new IE page,therfor every page that loads has this hang in it.
PLZ help!
Thanks

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by thechas

Try clearing out your IE cache (temporary internet files).

If you have enough files that the cache level has been reached, IE needs to clear out the oldest files before it can load a new page.

Next, how much free disk space do you have?
Again, the paging file (virtual memory) needs disk space to operate. If you have less than 500MB of free disk space, this can slow things down a lot.

From IE, click on Tools, Internet Options.
On the General tab, click on delete files in the TemporaryInternet Files section.

Then, open Windows Explorer.
Browse to C:\Windows\Temp
Delete any file or folder that is over 2 weeks old.

Boot into safe mode, and run scandisk and defrag.

Chas

by kurt.edwins

Hi Chas,
Thanks for the help,i've tried the clearing cache and temp folders,,problem is still occuring.
Well when i do a defrag or scandisk the process does not respond.Now its making me think theres bad sectors on the HDD.i have over 2 g of spacefree so thats not it.should i get a new drive??

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