Browser and mail very slow to load. 1

[dan2229]

I got really sick and tired of IE's popups at the bottom of the screen, so I have been using Chrome exclusively since November. However, Chrome and Outlook are now incredibly slow to launch. Example: if I were to restart right now, it might take 30 minutes or longer before being able to launch either.

I have updated Chrome about every week, but I still get slow performance.

Here is my question... is it possble that my antenae is going bad? I used to load both very quickly when the laptop was new. I have an Acer Aspire 5742 with an i3 M370 running Win 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1, 64 bit with 4 Gb of ram. The laptop is one year, three months old.

My laptop sits in my family room and consistently will have four out of five bars of signal.

I use the Avast Free. I also run Malwarebytes, and AdwCleaner every other week or so.

Do I need to go back to a Restore Point or is there a way to update my firmware for my antenae?

Thanks ahead of time.

Daniel

 

[xwb]

Re the original slowdown: have you tried clearing out the local settings\temp and local settings\temporary internet files directories? There are normally tons of files in there, probably with zero size.

 

[dan2229]

Goombawaho,

Yes, I probably did mess up with the ISO file by just burning it. I thought I had followed the directions on the Microsoft site, but apparently didn't.

xwb,

I cleared those out probably five or six times. The good news is that I went to the Acer site and followed the directions for bringing the computer back to factory. It was a little slow and the computer must have restarted a dozen times in the process, but all is well. It opens Outlook in a flash, and the Internet launches in a second or two. Mission accomplished!

Thanks to all that helped!

Daniel

 

[goombawaho]

But now you have all the crapware reinstalled. Make sure to remove all that and run Windows Update about 7 times with a reboot in-between each round of updates. Update IE/FireFox/Chrome as well. Office patches too.

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