Since yesterday internet Explorer 6 takes two to two and a half minutes to load URLs which I have typed in. What I find puzzling is that sites listed in 'FAVOURITES' come up quickly. For example if I type www.bbc.co.uk I would get this c.2 min delay but as it's in my Favourites list it comes up in a few seconds which doesn't seem logical to me. I have XP with 512 Kb RAM, AMD ATHLON 2.2 GHz chip and ISP is provided by cable. Any suggestions what I can do please ? First thing I'd do is update your version of Windows by visiting Windows Update and downloading the high-priority updates for your computer. If you're running IE 6, then you're definitely behind the times. Keeping your system up-to-date is a regular part of routine maintenance.

The next thing I'd do is to run Disk Clean Up and a Defrag.

Lastly...I'd make sure my MALWARE protection is up-to-date and run fullsystem scans in Safe Mode. When done...run them again normally.

You can also select which programs you want to run at Startup by running msconfig in the RUN command line.Thanks I'll try updating to IE7 and Defrag which I last did a month ago. But it's still mighty queer to me that yesterday it was working and today it isn't!Just remember to do the malware scans also...just like I mentioned in my previous post...okay.

...you're welcome.Did DiscClearn Up and Defrag - no difference. I'd forgotten the importance of doing advert scan (Lavasoft Ad-Aware) in safe mode however and that seemed to do the trick. Typed URLs now come up properly. As well as Norton Security Suite I can recommend a little program called jvw's History Eraser which I've just got. It cleans dozen odd files relating to your RECENT web acticity eg. recentry run programs, temporary files, internet history, index.dat etc. I paid €8 which is about $11.50 - I thought it quite useful. Anyway, many thanks for your helpful suggestion. You're welcome...glad I could help.