re: IE5.5 sluggish, dropping highspeed connection
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 8:06 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Before wiping out the IE5.5 with that IEradicator program, should I be saving any
info, like my address book, or any bookmarks? Sounds like it cleans it pretty thoroughly.
Does it touch the Outlook Express? I know from updating it through M$s site, it updates
the Outlook mail program. (one of the salesreps here at work accidentally updated
IE5.5 to IE6 while getting a simple critical fix) Your fix of how to go to the new
browser is more an uninstall/install than 'upgrade'.
The thing is, we have IE5.5 at work, hooked up to the same kind of ADSL, same ISP,
with the exception of a hub for shared access, and it works just fine. One of my
main concerns is that besides my copy of 5.5 at home is sluggish, which just started
doing this after installing the NIC, it's dropping the internet connection. It's
either line noise, which I think it isn't, or it's a simple thing I'm missing. I
want to see if I can fix the connection issue, before upgrading. I can't see why
using 5.5 shouldn't work. I understand the security issues, but... do you know what
I mean?
Upgrading aside, I want to know why it's dropping the connection first. Maybe I should
have rearranged the subject line for order of preference in questions. ;)
You've made some excellent points for cleaning the system of the sludge that builds,
and I'm definitely getting into some of those. I already use Spy-Bot, thanks to hearing
about it from this excellent forum a couple months ago.
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