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| Thread ID: 134862 | 2013-08-24 06:01:00 | Trouble with 'Favourites' in Windows 7. | jhemm (17143) | Press F1 |
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| 1351983 | 2013-08-24 23:11:00 | Try this -- Uninstall AVG, its been known to cause all sorts of problems, including slowness of web pages loading, general slowness of the PC just to name a few. I regularly uninstall customers AVG then put in a better Antivirus and that fixes a high portion of the problems they are having. Just do a google search and you'll see many posts with people complaining about AVG slowing down site, heres an example of one: Some-Internet-Sites-Suddenly-Will-Not-Load (cyberfreak.hubpages.com) - in that article is a suggestion on how to turn off the feature relating to slow loading,this may or may not be he problem, but you need to either confirm it or not. A couple of weeks ago, one customers PC, her XP had avg, pages were taking 2-3 minutes to load (or longer), removed AVG, they then loaded within 3 seconds. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1351984 | 2013-08-25 00:55:00 | 1. Thanks feersumendjinn. I composed a reply to you, and thought I posted it, but it seems to have vanished. Basically I was asking if it is possible to overload one's Favourites capacity, i.e. have too many. I've got about 70. 2. Thanks wainuitech. I'm a bit reluctant to Uninstall AVG completely as I can't afford real protection at the moment. However I tried using the feature in AVG which claims to disable it temporarily, and that made no difference. That Cyberfreak site you referred me to was also affected by this slow loading business so I haven't looked at it yet. I thought I would just check whether you have any other thoughts before I take the plunge. (Oh, reason I went back to AVG was because my PC was originally sold with Nortons which became corrupted and had to be removed.) |
jhemm (17143) | ||
| 1351985 | 2013-08-25 05:37:00 | Just reading the post not to sure if you could actually read the post or not. However I tried using the feature in AVG which claims to disable it temporarily, and that made no difference. That Cyberfreak site you referred me to was also affected by this slow loading business so I haven't looked at it yet. Kind of contradicts each other ? Heres what is suggested: disabling Link Shield and ALL AVG related browser toolbars is the way to go; in more than ten times on ten different computers, the problem was solved at once when Link Shield and Do Not Track were disabled through the options and in particular through the path AVG Main Window>Tools>Advanced Settings. Currently not suggesting anything else as AVG is known to cause the problem ( may or may not be the case here), so if its AVG then any other suggestion would be of no use. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1351986 | 2013-08-25 05:54:00 | windows defender is a free ms av windows.microsoft.com and I think would be recommended most as a good free av |
jontee (11618) | ||
| 1351987 | 2013-08-25 10:25:00 | Thanks Wainuitech. Could only find in AVG something called 'Link scanner surf shield' which I presume is the same thing and I have disabled that. No change. Can't find anything like 'Do Not Track.' There is something called 'Identity Protection,' should I disable that? Sounds a bit unsafe? I've managed to print out my Favourites. I could go through them one by one, mark all slow-opening ones and delete them for a while. Any point to doing that? Jontee below has a suggestion about Windows Defender, which I have got or can get. I read somewhere that it was not much good. Any comment on that? |
jhemm (17143) | ||
| 1351988 | 2013-08-25 22:22:00 | MSE/defender is fine, Avast is also free and currently rated better but if you chose it pay attention to the install options or you'll get chrome installed. Have you considered or tried system restore to a date prior to the issues |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1351989 | 2013-08-25 23:31:00 | Thanks dugimodo, further thanks to wainuitech. Well, I took the plunge and through Control Panel I appear to have uninstalled AVG. Unfortunately the problem still persists - I have 39 'good' Favourites and 12 'bad' ones that are slow to load or won't load at all. Also, I follow a blog that my daughter produces, which has also become inaccessible, and that's not even in Favourites - I access it through a desktop icon. I've loaded Defender and it claims to be working, except I keep getting an 'Issues' notice stating that I'm not protected. What is that telling me? Last time I had a PC problem I called in an expensive tech, who took it away and reformatted my hard drive - I'm keen not to repeat that experience if I can avoid it, and am very grateful for all suggestions. |
jhemm (17143) | ||
| 1351990 | 2013-08-26 08:37:00 | Have you tried this yet? Try this (internet cache can get corrupted, and cause all sorts of bother). kb.wisc.edu |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1351991 | 2013-08-26 13:01:00 | Thank you feersumendjinn. I already delete my browsing history daily as a matter of routine, but the rest of your post looks interesting and I will follow it up tomorrow - 12 pm now and time for bed. | jhemm (17143) | ||
| 1351992 | 2013-08-26 22:39:00 | feersumendjinn - further to above, I've done as shown on that site, but no improvement. However, I have noted that when I clear the history, it always left a couple of sites undeleted - just ignored that up till now. And when I click on the down arrow beside Favourites, it shows a lot more history - 20 sites to be exact. There is no pattern that I can see in this 'hidden' history - seems to be a random mixture of what I previously called 'good' and 'bad' sites, only stand-out feature is that 12 of them are my wife's genealogy sites. Last sites added were this one (PCWorld) which obviously works, and an attempt at re-adding TV3which I had deleted as an experiment, and which is still a 'slow' or 'bad' site. Any sense, as I asked before, in deleting all the 'bad' sites from Favourites in case one of them is causing the problem? l |
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