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IE very slow to load pages or respond to clicks
In Windows 7 (of course), my problem is that IE is very slow to load web pages and also slow to respond to clicks such as menu clicks. It became virtually unusable last evening, taking 30 minutes or more to load a single page, and then an equally long time to respond to every click.
Here is what I've tried.
First, I wondered if there was a virus, so I booted from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk and ran a scan of the boot sectors. No malware found. I started a scan of the whole C drive. Five hours later it was still going, and apparently it was spending most of its time in a folder called Content.IE5. It was up to 1.8 million files and still only 28% done.
This gave me the idea that the problem with IE was too many temporary files, so I stopped the Kaspersky scan and booted into windows again.
I checked the free capacity of the C: drive. It's a 500 GB drive and only 100 GB were in use.
I went into the control panel for the internet options and deleted all the cookies and history and cached pages and such.
IE was still unusuably slow.
Then, at the start prompt, I typed "shell:cache" and it showed me the Temporary Internet Files folder. I could see Content.IE. I entered it and noticed four folders named with random strings of letters and numbers. I deleted them.
IE was still unusuably slow.
I created a new user with administrator privileges and went into that. I ran IE5 and it was still unusably slow.
Any ideas?