Windows 7: Yahoo and other site loading WAY SLOW

I am SOOOO new to Windows 7.

I am the IT support person for a company which had no intentions of moving to Windows 7 yet, but our CEO got a SONY laptop with Windows 7 home Premium 4gb on the motherboard, 64bit OS

When we are trying to brows the web we have no problem with Google but Yahoo comes up in "compatibility mode" and the items are displayed left justifed. Ebay comes up in "normal" mode but with the items skewed most of the time but sometime it comes up normal...

o...k.....

These "skewed" sites also take FOREVER to load.

I have attached a JPG of the screen with Firefox and IE8 (same thing happens with chrome)



Help?

Hi Sheeter. Welcome to SevenForums

A quick glance at your attached picture shows that the Yahoo site at least, is the mobile version of their Website. (signified by the "m" before the www prefix)

Try accessing the browser based pages and see if there is an improvement.

Hope this helps.

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not really. If you type "www.yahoo.com" the DNS to reroutes it to "m.www.yahoo.com"

also, please note that it is not just an issue with Yahoo.

What does it say when you PING the sites?

Sheeter my suggestion would be the following:

First Optimize IE 8:

1. Open Internet Explorer 8.
2. Click Tools , and then click Internet Options .
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Under Reset Internet Explorer Settings , click Reset .

1. Open Internet Explorer 8.
2. Click Tools , and then click Internet Options .
3. Click the Security tab.
4. Click Reset all zones to default level , and then click OK .

1. Open Internet Explorer 8.
2. Click Tools , and then click Delete Browsing History .
3. In Delete Browsing History , click Delete All .
4. Click to select the Also delete files and settings stored by add-ons check box, and then click OK .

Then download and run Malawarebytes Malwarebytes.org.

I am pretty sure that you have spyware of some type on the laptop. For reference see here: Internet Explorer 8 redirects to Mobile layout based sites

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I have followed the advice above and there is no difference.

I have installed AVG 9 and run a full scan, I also installed and ran Malwarebytes program which found Hijack.DisplayProperties and cleared it.

Rebooted

No difference.

Thoughts?

Steve