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[Gaffers]

Could be something wrong with the "code" on the icon startup script (right-click > "properties") or the registry....but must admit I have never seen that issue before

[Broomies Mate]

Who uses IE nowadays? 

25% of global users, apparently 

Of that 25%, I'd wager the majority are Corporate users who have no choice in their browser.

Microsoft products have been the major target for every hacker and their cousin since Day Dot.  I'll stick with FireFox and AdBlock+...... at least I don't have to wait a week for a webpage to open! 

[MR MISTER]

Who uses IE nowadays? 

25% of global users, apparently 

Of that 25%, I'd wager the majority are Corporate users who have no choice in their browser.

Microsoft products have been the major target for every hacker and their cousin since Day Dot.  I'll stick with FireFox and AdBlock+...... at least I don't have to wait a week for a webpage to open! 

A week! Wow, that is slow.

[Auto Addict]

A reboot seems to have cured it

Thanks for suggestions.

[TheBoy]

Who uses IE nowadays? 

Anyone with an eye for security, and who needs to run Windows.

[TheBoy]

Who uses IE nowadays? 

25% of global users, apparently 

Of that 25%, I'd wager the majority are Corporate users who have no choice in their browser.

Microsoft products have been the major target for every hacker and their cousin since Day Dot.  I'll stick with FireFox and AdBlock+...... at least I don't have to wait a week for a webpage to open! 

You need to fast forward about 10yrs

MS went through all that shit in the early XP era. Hence the number of IE (and Windows, for that matter) exploitable flaws are fairly low.

Compare MS's patch Tuesday - a big one this month - how many IE exploitable flaws fixed in the last month (2) compared to Chrome (over 40).


As for speed, IE (actually, Trident) has been the fastest renderer on Windows since IE8 came out, surpassing Gecko (FF) and Webkit/Blink (I hope all Chrome users are using Blink now!!!).

If you can't get IE to perform, you need to do some sensible housekeeping on it, and stop running as a superuser

[TheBoy]

A reboot seems to have cured it

Thanks for suggestions.

Odd, but sorted. Was she fully logging out, not just switching users?

I too was starting to think along the lines of Guffers before reading your update

[Auto Addict]

A reboot seems to have cured it

Thanks for suggestions.

Odd, but sorted. Was she fully logging out, not just switching users?

I too was starting to think along the lines of Guffers before reading your update

Machine was running slow, took ages to log both of us off, after re-boot, everything seems back to normal

I very rarely use the desktop, so was unaware of the problem till yesterday, seems it's been like it for a week.

[Auto Addict]

Another thing I noticed, quite a number of MS updates have failed (Win7).

I've tried running FIXIT, but it hasn't resolved the problem.

[TheBoy]

Another thing I noticed, quite a number of MS updates have failed (Win7).

I've tried running FIXIT, but it hasn't resolved the problem.

Sometimes not all updates will go on at same time, as some are whats call exclusive, and need a reboot.

Following reboot, try again. I'd avoid tools that claim to fix things for you, and often make things worse, and do it yourself - esp as you used to do IT stuff