For the past few days or so IE7 has become very slow at starting up.
(Yes I know I COULD use FF or Opera but that’s not my issue or question so don’t post OK?)
Slow as, once the window appears it takes about 5 seconds (counted in elephants!) to be ‘ready’, the tabs title says connecting. New tabs take a similar amount of time to become interactive.
Usually I’m typing away the url of where I want to get to today – and then the window becomes interactive and blats my typing with the homepages url.
At one point I thought this was caused by my choice of homepage( http://channel9.msdn.com ) so I’ve changed it to about:blank with no change to the elephant count.
I’ve had a look in the Manage Add-Ons Dialog the currently loaded page shows 10 items.
Also when I look at the Runs without requiring permissions there are several pages of add ons…….
Now I could turn them all off and start switching them back on to find the culprit…..
Is there a way to Time the start up process and intelligently make a decision about what is making the start up process take so long?
After all counting elephants is not the most accurate way of testing software – but it’s all I got at the moment for this issue……
There is an Internet Explorer event viewer log – but I or anyone I know has never seen an entry in it!