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re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 10:22 am Posted by werner (7061 messages posted) have you considered a different Firewall?Joe lists a few in his Take Your Pick http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1100552072 or have a look here http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/security/fwfirewall.html :) werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 1:42 pm Posted by kmzallar (195 messages posted) Ruled out prob with zone alarm, I installed it on my laptop and everything works fine....any other suggestions. I have followed all of Jacks Me fixes still slowwwwwwwwwwww On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 5:11 am, kmzallar wrote: >Hi all, >got a prob with my system running Me with Ie6. My sis like to play games in pogo.com >and recently it takes them for ever to open. The only thing I can think could be >causing this is Zone Alarm...my reasoning being I recently updated to the latest >version of Zone Alarm and since then have had probs. I have used all the scans for >spyware--nothing there. Dumped my tmp files and cleaned up the puter in general also >did fix on Ie, but still very slow..I am running DSL so it should be speedy but is >acting more like a dial-up. Any help would be much appreciated. >Regards, Kathy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 3:23 pm Posted by werner (7061 messages posted) I'd still be following the initial hunch,and replace Zone-Alarm.Got really nothing to loose at this stage. lol werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 5:08 am Posted by kmzallar (195 messages posted) tryed Sygate firewall....same ole crap...it's not the firewall! I need to know what else might be causing this. I have plenty of Ram (384mg) yet machine is running at about 70% at start-up. I have cleared all but essentials out of startup. Looked at HJT log, can't see anything there. What the hell could this be?????????? On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 3:23 pm, werner wrote: >I'd still be following the initial hunch,and replace Zone-Alarm.Got really nothing >to loose at this stage. lol werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 3:13 pm Posted by werner (7061 messages posted) you got me there.Hope someone else comes along and has a go at this. lol werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Friday, July 22, 2005 at 10:17 am Posted by kmzallar (195 messages posted) Werner, just thought I would let you know...my problems WERE caused by Zone Alarm, after trying ever fix in the book I completly uninstalled Zone Alarm and wala everything works fine now. The wierd thing is, I use Zone Alarm on my Laptop which uses XP Pro and it works fine, just doesn't work so good with Me. anyway thanks for you help. Regards, Kathy On Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 3:13 pm, werner wrote: >you got me there.Hope someone else comes along and has a go at this. lol werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Internet pages opening slooooooooow. Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 3:33 pm Posted by werner (7061 messages posted) thanks for letting me know.I am using Zonealarm Free on two Dells with XPHome and never had any problems with the Firewalls.Have heard Zone Alarm dials out unauthorized and all kinds of horror stories but wonder sometimes if that applies to the Suite or just to the Firewall.Glad you got it fixed.Just make sure you have got up a Firewall.There are some good free ones.Joe lists a few in his "Standard Utilities" :) werner http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1110905121 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum