Old fashioned elbow grease...

[teamster1975]

No slowdowns here either Welly

Bring up taskmanager when you open the page and see if iexplore.exe is clobbering the processor.
Most importantly check your free memory when you've got the site open; what version of Windows are you running & how much RAM has your PC got?

[Welly]

no still the same on mine welly

Don't you mean still the same on those

[Welly]

Teamy -

Bear wth me I'm no expert,

On this page 4 iexplore.exe was showing 80% and 22,444K page 3 said 96% and 25,600K

I've got Windows XP Home edition 2002

The machine is a Medion celeron 3.06GHz 448MB RAM (this is what system properties said under the "general" tab)

When I right click on the C drive under properties it says 74.5GB with 61.7GB free space.

Since typing this the iexplore has gone down to 2% and the system idle process is 80/90%

[teamster1975]

What you're after is the free physical memory when you go into task manager and performance when you're on those pages. What does that say Welly?

Edit: I've just re-read your message; you must have an integrated graphics card that's using 64Mb of the system RAM.
I bet you're running low on free physical memory; pop to PC World and grab another 512Mb or 1Gb DDR stick; PC3200 should do you (that's the maximum bus frequency the memory can support); it's not dear.

[Welly]

Under "performance" it showing:

457200 total
48400 available
97000 cache

Anyway you said pop down and get a what now?

[teamster1975]

Under "performance" it showing:

457200 total
48400 available
97000 cache

Anyway you said pop down and get a what now?

You're pretty low on available memory Welly; I reckon that's your problem!
You need to buy from your local friendly computer shop an additional 512Mb or 1Gb of DDR RAM; it's a stick that plugs into the main board of your PC, dead easy to do. I'll PM you my mobile no in case you get stuck in the shop.

[Welly]

Thanks Teamy - although this is my works computer so the company can pay I might even get the sub contracting "computer man" to sort it

You've helped a lot in explaining what's up though, cheers.

Ackchewlee this PC was marketed as being the dogs doodads when it came out but I think it's supposed to be for home use (I bought it urgently from Aldi's when the other one broke) it's got home cinema and tv etc - maybe they never left much space for internet browsing etc?

Are these "packaged" PC's not so good then and leave you having to tweek them to your needs?

[teamster1975]

It's my pleasure, I do it for a living!
The main problem is with integrated graphics because they share the system memory decreasing the amount of free RAM you have.
XP needs 512Mb to run decently, you've only got 448 free because of the shared memory. It doesn't matter so much on new kit because they generally come with 2Gb RAM anyway to run Vista half decently!
Memory is so cheap to buy that it's not a huge deal to add your own really.

[steve_earwig]

Depends if you've got available slots and if your motherf..board supports larger memory and if it's not so old they don't do memory for it anymore...

Personally, I'd bin IE and use something mozilla-based.

[teamster1975]

Depends if you've got available slots and if your motherf..board supports larger memory and if it's not so old they don't do memory for it anymore...

Personally, I'd bin IE and use something mozilla-based.

If you lived over here I'd have sorted you a PC out Steve
There's nothing wrong with IE at all! He just hasn't got enough memory in the PC. £20 or whatever it is and job done. Especially if the firm pays for it

[Welly]

What's this integrated graphics about?

[teamster1975]

It's when the graphics controller is built into the motherboard rather than an add-in card. Much cheaper to build but they share the system memory rather than having their own dedicated stuff.

[Welly]

You mean graphics as in bouncing booby avatars?

[teamster1975]

That's the one!
Basically what you see on the screen is generated by the graphics processor and output to the screen.

[steve_earwig]

If you lived over here I'd have sorted you a PC out Steve

Both my pc and laptop are severely out of date but I can't afford to do anything about it, especially as pc components are 2 to 3 times as expensive here. The systems they sell look pretty cheap though, that's until you look up the components and the blurb says "good performance on a budget" and then you see the review date is 2004. Even wonder what they do with all the old stuff the can't sell in the EU? That's odd, I seem to remember saying that before on here, but that was the out of date tellies they sell here at a premium.

IE is very resource heavy on both my machines, I'm running Maxthon on both and things seem much happier. Not that I'm up for a round of "my browser's better than yours", it just runs better on my antiquated systems, that's all.