Explorer.exe slow to open after IE8 Update?

[Dark Atheist]

Anyone else getting this? Normally if i click on my computer from the desktop, or if i select my computer from the start menu it opens up quickly, since the IE8 update it seems to take 5 seconds to do so, the little busy circle comes up then few seconds later so does the list of drives.

I have checked for nasties and such all clean there

 

[American Zombie]

Re: Explorer.exe slow to open ofter IE8 Update?

What OS?

 

[Dark Atheist]

Vista X64 ultimate fully patched, seems it does it if explorer.exe hasnt been opened for a while if you open it then close it and open it right away it ups up as normal

 

[Dark Atheist]

un-installing IE8 solved it 🙂

 

[rotjong]

I'll have to pay attention for the next few days. Honestly, it feels and looks to me that there is no slowdown on my system in regard to Explorer.exe since I updated to IE8. I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 fully updated.

 

[Dark Atheist]

it was extremely noticeable for me, different pcs are set up different ways with different things, maybe im just lucky 😛

 

[melon]

Just updated to IE8 myself, and I'm not having that problem either.

 

[Dark Atheist]

as i say different set-ups different issues 😉 - might dual boot this pc with gentoo to use for day to day things and vista when i want to do art stuff, so i have no need for ie8 🙂

 

[Electronic Punk]

Having no problems, but I did give the system a good clean up before installing.
(not that it made any difference I am sure)

 

[Dark Atheist]

after googling it looks like its waiting for something, as i say un-installing it solved the problem so its something to do with ie and my system set-up, not that i am that bothered as i dont use ie anyway 🙂 might be an issue when they force they update on me though 🙁

 

[kzuse]

I have a similar problem on three different machines running Win XP Pro and Home Edition and also IE8 installed:

Since I installed IE8 on those machines, Windows Explorer occasionally freezes completely after right-clicking a file or hitting Shift+Del on a file. Only Ctrl+Alt+Del and Logoff resolves this (I waited for over 3 Minutes, but nothing happened).

I mean, on slower PCs it's normal that the context menu shows up after a short pause of maybe 2 seconds (especially on media files, for which metadata like ID3 tags etc. could be read in the background) - but after 3 Minutes of the context menu not showing and the whole explorer window no longer responding I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and log off.

After logging in again, all is fine.

Anyone else this issue?

Anyway, I will try uninstalling IE8 now...

 

[kzuse]

OK, tried to uninstall IE8 on one machine.

It didn't help. Just selected 5 .jpg images to delete them at once, but when hitting "Shift+Del", all froze up.

Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Task Manager -> quit explorer.exe -> New Task -> explorer.exe also helps, then.

But I'm somewhat angry. Now it means I have to restore backup images to all these machines. Thank you MS...

Anyway, has nobody else encountered this problem?

 

[dz2k]

Anyone else getting this? Normally if i click on my computer from the desktop, or if i select my computer from the start menu it opens up quickly, since the IE8 update it seems to take 5 seconds to do so, the little busy circle comes up then few seconds later so does the list of drives.

I have checked for nasties and such all clean there

yes, i had same issue w/ my system. we have the same setup..vista x64 and i have quad core processor. i uninstalled it and went back to ie7!!

 

[ming]

I've had a performance issue with IE8 opening new tabs. It takes about half a minute or more to load on my Atom PC whereas IE7 takes seconds for the new tab/page to load.

 

[dz2k]

I've had a performance issue with IE8 opening new tabs. It takes about half a minute or more to load on my Atom PC whereas IE7 takes seconds for the new tab/page to load.

lol, i had that issue also...it took like 15 seconds to open a new tab. ridicoulous. im waiting for IE9 to update my browser. i have a quad core processor and 8gb ram. i expect things to be fast.