Gary,

Have you installed any software recently? That could be the cause of your
problem. Some addition to your system other than IE? Otherwise I don't have
a clue.

John D.


At 08:04 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote:
>hi....for the past few days i'm having a puzzling problem with my Internet
>Explorer browser.... firstly i will say that my computer has the usual
>bells and whistles and that i'm using win XP home edition..... basically
>here's whats happening.... when i click the IE shortcut the browser opens
>to my home page (Google) without any problem but then it seems to freeze
>for about 20 seconds during which time i can't do anything like use the
>scrool bar,type in the address bar,minimize the page,click a link,etc. The
>green progress bar at bottom of the page fills in with the little blocks
>but just remains there for the 20 seconds or so..... when things return to
>normal and i can go to another page the same thing happens again on that
>page..... what i've done so far is go into add\remove and do a repair of
>IE but that didnt solve the problem..... i uninstalled IE which restored
>the previous version but no success..... i then redownloaded IE which is
>IE6 SP1 and installed it but still had the same problem.... the only
>add-on i have is the google toolbar but disabling that doesn't help....
>has anyone else encountered this problem and would have a cause and\or
>cure .... it's quite annoying and i only want to format if i really have
>to do so........ thanks.... Gary Burke.
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