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by allawrence

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When I start IE7 it does start fast BUT the first tab says "Connecting..." and it takes about 7-8 seconds before you see the "About:Blank" and the toolbar on the 2nd line...

I have disabled a lot of the add-ins to see if they may be causing the 'delay'

How do I tell what is trying to "COnnect" to?

Thanks in advance

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by michael jay

that you have no home page selected, go to tools/internet options, in the general tab you will see the home page and if it says about:blank there is your problem. Type something in there like https://www.techrepublic.com.com/ then your browser will go to tr on startup.

As to the slow response it may be that under tools/internet options on the connections tab under lan settings you may have automatically detect settings checked. Remove this check, close ie7 and reopen it, hope that helps.

by allawrence

Thank you for the reply Michael...

I would prefer to leave the setting at about:blank as I am adverse to having a home page... never need one :)

I would have thought that leaving it at about:blank there would be no need for IE7 to have to "Connect..." anywhere until I entered a URL... is that not the case?

The "slow response" is related to the startup related to the "Connecting..." issue above...

Thanks

Al

by normoline

That's the point of having a blank homepage, I always set it to blank so I don't have to wait for a page to load. I want to instantly load up ie and then choose my site.

Now it acts like it's trying to access a homepage and gives the 7 second delay even though the homepage is purposely set to blank. What is it trying to connect to when it says "connecting..."???? I don't want Internet explorer to waste my time connecting to anything until I tell it what page I want to go to!

by allawrence

I believe I have found a resolution... I no longer have the 7-10 second delays...

Tools|Manage Addins|Enable or disable Addins

Click on Addons Currently Loaded in IE

Disable the following Addon:

SSVHELPER CLASS

This a Sun Micro Systems module that I assume is related to Java somehow... have no clue what it does or why... but ever since I disabled it I am not encountering the delay...

Of course your mileage may vary...

If you do not have that file loaded, I would check if one of the other addons is contributing... by disabling them 1 at a time...

by technotes

What fixed the problem for me was disabling the IE Browser Helper from Lenove (CPwmIEBrowserHelper Object):
Tools - Manage Add-ons. Removing the SSV Helper did not help in my case.

by jayed19

1. Click Start, go control panel and double click Internet Option.
2. Switch to the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Reset Internet Explorer Settings button.
4. Click Reset to confirm the operation.
5. Click Close when the resetting process finished.
6. Uncheck Enable third-party browser extensions option in the Settings box.
7. Click Apply, click OK.
8. Now open the browser.I suggest: click to start button then run and type "iexplore".

After that, try to see if it works.

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