"Joni" <me@spanfree.com> wrote in message
news:e2CrfTa3IHA.2524@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> I am posting this here because I cannot seem to find the correct board.
>
> How is this for a tale of woe! I have spent hours and hours installing
and
> uninstalling IE 6 and IE7 on my Win XP as advised by my ISP provider and
my
> computer mfr Hardware and Software Depts.
>
>
>
> My DSL ISP told me it was an IE7 problem that was slowing down my
computer.
> I went back to IE6 and forgot about all this then I reinstalled IE7 again
> and it worked fine for a long time then my computer started running very
> slow and then a tech from my computer mfr. Hdwe. Dept told me IE7 is
really
> for Vista and after awhile it slows down the system. See last paragraph
in
> this post.
>
>
>
> At this point I went back to IE6 but the computer was still very slow. My
> DSL ISP checked my line for 4 days and finally a tech told me it was my
> modem. He was going to send me a new one but at the time I had already
> decided to switch to cable so I then had a cable connection to the
Internet
> and a cable modem and IE6. (Note the computer mfr Hdwe. Tech changed my
> options so that I would be notified before I installed Windows Updates so
I
> could do a custom setting and not select any IE7 installs.
>
>
>
> At this point I was having trouble with a page not displaying properly. I
> called my cable company and they told me it was a fault of my
> computer-either plug-ins or security settings. I called my computer mfr.
> software support dept. and I explained the page problem. -too far to the
> left with no way to move it further right. The computer mfr. tech asked
me
> if I had SP3. At this point I suppose I still had SP3 but IE6 and it was
my
> understanding that there was no way to remove the SP3 so he reinstalled
the
> IE7 and this seems to have corrected the page that would not display
> properly. Seems he never came across this problem before. Now I am
> wondering how long it will be before IE7 slows things down again. Once
> again I guess I should switch to automatic download and install since I
now
> have IE7 and I won't get anymore messages from one of my browsers about
> optimization meaning change to automatic.
>
>
>
> IE7 by the way is awful when it comes to getting pages to print with
larger
> print. I realize the lines do not get cut off like they sometimes do with
> IE6. Pasting everything into word to rearrange the lines and print larger
> is a headache as is trying to change the print options in the preview
menu.
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> (Another question I had for my Hdwe dept. tech (mfr.) was why did my
Windows
> Update tell me there was a newer version of IE when I had IE6 on a Windows
> XP computer if IE7 is not for Windows XP.
>
> The tech (mfr.) told me something about these messages going out to all
> types of computers such as Win. 2000 and I believe he even mentioned
Apple.)
>
>


Maybe you'd want to try an alternate browser such as Firefox3