Homepage loads slowly at startup

Hi....During the past week, my homepage takes about 90 secs to load. Originally, I had IE6 installed, but lost it when I tried to 'repair' it. As a substitute, I installed IE7 and Firefox. The page loads faster with Firefox, but OE takes a long time to respond and open if I make Firefox the default browser. If at startup, I use IE7 first, the homepage page still takes a long time to load, but OE loads fast. Firefox seems to work not too badly, but there are a few sites that it can't open.
Out of frustration, I did a system restore, without success. I installed 'TweakDUN' and 'optimized' my computer. I always run my spyware, malware and antivirus utilities. I tried to restore the hosts file, but I get a 'Run time error '70'. Permission denied.' message. I'm at a loss what to do and what I did wrong that caused this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance.

 

Sorry to take so long to answer... I usually run programs that remove/check for spyware and malware on a daily basis. My homepage does have some pictures, but no animation. None of these things have changed before the problem started. I tried a new homepage and it takes about the same amount of time to load.

 

The more I think about my problem, the more I believe that IE 7 is not able to connect to the internet, where as, Firefox can. Are there any solutions to the IE problem?

 

Try changing it to www.google.com as it should load in about 1 or 2 seconds as there is really not much to load on it.

 

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WHat happens if you chnage your homepage to a different site?

I'll come in on this question as that is just the problem I am having.
Currently the homepage is locked into www.ninemsn.com.au even though I set www.tpg.com.au as default.

Haven't had this problem previously......so the ? is what is required to overcome this.

Thanks
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I just tried having www.google.com as my home page and there was no change in the time. Once I get connected to the internet, everything works fine and I can access websites etc. quickly. Something is preventning IE from connecting to the internet!!!

 

I think that I have solved my problem....I deleted 'Bonjour'... which I didn't want in the first place...and my page came up quickly!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

Glad that you got it fixed. Thanks for posting back. Now you won't be able to learn French...lol