IE6 Temporary lock up when surfing

Over the last month I have had a problem with two of my Win98 machines. Every time I call a web page locally or from the internet my system locks for around two minutes. During this time I am unable to move my mouse cursor. Finally it comes back and the page loads.

I have spoken to other people with Win98 who are having the same problem. It has only been happening for about a month so I was wondering if this was due to the March update. I run through winproxy. Has anyone else had this problem and has anyone found a solution?

 

Hi tonysmith
Welcome to the boards!
When this freeze up occurs? Can you do a ctrl/alt/del and list for us all that you have running in the close programs dialogue box?

Daizy

 

I have the following running

IE - Displaying the page in question
Explorer - Win 98
Stimon - Still image monitor
Starter - Sound card control in task bar
HPSIVXD - Scanner monitor
Alogserv - Mcafee Virusscan component
Systray - Win 98
Wmexe - Winmodem
Fmempro - FreeMem Pro memory manager

None of this has changed much in years apart from Freemem Pro but I had that installed nearly a year without problems. It is not all pages, this BBS for example is fine, never locked on these pages. Winproxy, running on my proxy server machine has been installed for over two years so that can't be it.

It's does not prevent me from surfing it just makes it very slow and prevents you from doing other things while it loads certain pages, even pages which are plain HTML.

Maybe it's the virus scanner settings again, Mcafee can cause problems with performance if settings are wrong and it has a nasty habit of losing settings every now and then so it is one suspect. Who knows?

Getting answers from Microsoft is a bit like trying to get blood out of a stone sometimes.

 

Hi again tonysmith,
What operating system are you running? How much Ram? Have you tried disabling a couple of those things from loading at start up just to see if it makes a difference? Your scanner for instance and the memory manager? (I just read a good article about them here actually. )
I know too that those winmodems put a bit of a strain on your CPU. Though for now, there's not much you can do with it, if that's what you're working with.

Daizy

 

Well I'm on win98 (with all updates)
I have 256 Meg Ram so I think I have enough memory.

I don't think it's the memory manager because it is happening on my other machine which does not run it, the other machine also has no scanner, besides, this has only been happening a month and I'v been running this setup for over three years, and the memory manager for about a year, the problem only started about a month ago.

I have tried taking one application out at a time and no difference. I sware this is a bug in IE. It has nothing to do with the page content as far as I can see because it does it with pure HTML pages without any media at all.

Maybe another of those Microsoft bugs which quietly get fixed while your not looking ;-)

Anyway, I just have to keep banging the rocks together. Thanks..

 

Well, I just updated with the 15th May so called security patch which seems to have solved the problem. As I suspected MS made a change through an update which obviously caused this problem. But as always with Microsoft they introduce other fixes in security updates and this bug was obviously on of them.

I would like to have known what the problem was, but as they seem to have fixed it maybe it will now be available on the MS Knowledge base.

My next system will be Linux based as I am tired of the lack of support from Microsoft over windows, unless your a big company it really is next to impossible to get direct information from Microsoft. 50 Euro is a little bit expensive to the normal home user just for Microsoft to speak to you about a bug which they have introduced via the Windows Update program.

Is this a money making idea from Microsoft, introduce a bug and charge people 50 Euro for the solution? I would put nothing past old billy boy.