I am experiencing painfully slow Internet Explorer since updating to Spybot SD1.6. Can anyone help?
Slow Internet Explorer since updating to SD 1.6
I am experiencing painfully slow Internet Explorer since updating to Spybot SD1.6. Can anyone help?
raypickering:
What Windows OS are you running?
Getting an answer is one thing, learning is another.
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition running on a 2.40GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512 MB of RAM and a 533 MHz System Bus.
Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2.
It is the SDHelper? It is the Resident Shield in Internet Explorer.
ray, run Spybot-SD in Advanced Mode>Tools>Resident and untick "SDHelper". Close Spybot and start Internet Explorer. Is it "slow"?
DougCuk has found a solution, however it only temporarily eases the situation.
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=30943&page=6
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Much better, cheers for the advice.
raypickering:
I do not agree with drragostea's advice to disable Spybot's SDHelper and that you seem satisfied with that resolution.
Spybot's SDHelper provides protection against accessing malicious sites, the storing of tracking cookies, etc. while using Windows Internet Explorer.
Rather than just disable Spybot's SDHelper, I would like to see if slowdown that you observed is the same that DougCuk found was causing his slowdown of Windows Internet Explorer.
How many cookies are stored on your system?
Go into Start » Run » type "cookies" (no quotes) » click "OK".
That should bring up a Windows Explorer window listing the cookies stored on your system. Look in the "Status Bar" of the Windows Explorer window (the bar at the bottom of the window) to see how many cookies (lower left hand corner) are listed as "nnnn objects" (see note #1 below)?
Note #1: If there is no "Status Bar" on the bottom of the Windows Explorer window that displays the number objects displayed (as "nnnn objects") in the lower left hand corner of the Windows Explorer window as "nnnn objects", the maybe the "Status Bar" is not being displayed.
Go into Windows Explorer » View. If the "Status Bar" option in the context menu is not checked, click on the "Status Bar" option to get the Status Bar" on the bottom of the Windows Explorer window.
Getting an answer is one thing, learning is another.
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition running on a 2.40GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512 MB of RAM and a 533 MHz System Bus.
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