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I.E5 submit problem...

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Hello all,

I am experiencing a delay of around 10 seconds whenever I submit text into textboxes on webpages. It works OK after the delay but it's a bit of a bother.

The problem arouse after I formated my hard drive - it was fine before that. I also tried re-installing Internet Explorer 5 again, but no joy.

Hopefully this is a common problem and there'll be a nice easy solution!!

Thanks alot!

Mike.
 
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As follows...type in text, click submit/OK and then the page freezes. Cant click or select anything during the delay. After the delay, the data 'fires off'. It's as if I'd pressed return or clicked the button 10 seconds later!

Thanks for replying anyway!

Mike.

BTW, Win 95, 266mhz, 56k modem.
 
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There are any number of reasons it's so slow.
The site you're submitting to, the actual speed of your connection, amount of data sending, security settings, modem driver version, phase of the moon, the way you're holding your mouth...

Jim
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Jim's Modems:
 
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I am having precisely the same problem. Using IE 5.50 under Win98SE, PIII/600, 256 MB RAM, cable connection.

This is a new problem - just started a couple of weeks ago. In my case, information takes several seconds to appear in boxes, tabbing or mouse-clicking in boxes takes several seconds to appear, and the submit process takes several seconds before it sends data over the cable modem.

This is definitely within the computer and not a function of my cable connection. I've done registry checks and fixes, virus scans, both Norton and Computer Associates with no virii found. I have changed out memory modules, etc.

HELP!!!

Thanks,

Gary
Austin, TX
 
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Hi Jim,

All good questions.

256MB RAM (time delay same with 128 or 256 installed, and in different slots).

Time delay seems independent of available system resources, whether >80% or as low as 30%.

Regarding number of icons in the taskbar, I *assume* you are asking about what I've actually got running in the background (icons on the tray). Answer to that is BlackIce (firewall), task scheduler, vol control, anti-virus, and time sync. I have also tried setting up msconfig for a super clean boot without anything but the essential stuff at startup and IE5 exhibits the same time delay problem.

Haven't defragged recently, but I see no disk access going on (nor should there be) while this delay is happening.

Any thoughts?

Gary

 
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Jim,

Further to the previous thread, I went to uninstall IE5.5 through the control panel add/remove programs route. When I did so, I was prompted to see if I wanted to let the software try to heal any of its own errors. I did so and it came back admitting that it had irreparable damage ("imagehlp.dll is missing") and prompted me to allow it to revert to the previous version. I agreed.

The result was that it automatically reverted to IE5.0, and after reboot I'm back to NORMAL (fast) submission responses! Perhaps this means more to you than to me, but for the benefit of Mike, who started this thread, I'm guessing you may have a route to fixing your problem here by following my lead.

And thanks to you, Jim, for your interest.

Gary
Austin, TX
 
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