IE8 automatically installed now downloads are very slow, connected?

Number of posts: 42 Registration date: 2009-06-04 Location: Northamptonshire

Friends, recently IE8 automatically installed on my PC running XP Pro.

Before downloads of music from Itunes, 7digital and Soundclick were rapid transfers, now the download starts quickly (250Kbs) and then plummets to (28-35Kbs) for no reason at all making a download of, e.g. 3.50Mb about 3 minutes!

Is this connected with the installation or perhaps something else?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Regards, Peter.

Number of posts: 376 Registration date: 2008-10-14 Location: Birmingham UK

Can't really answer your question, but what you could try is to remove IE8 using "Add or Remove Programs" and see if it reverts back to your normal DL speed.

Also have you tried any of the Speed Test sites, such as http://www.speedtest.net/

Try the speed-test before and after removing IE8

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Perhaps this might help:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2443&cpage=4#comments

Incidently, one of my sons has been complaing about IE 8 so I will have a go at this myself on his pc (when I can get near it) ... will post back my findings Smile

Anne

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Number of posts: 51 Registration date: 2008-12-05 Location: Oxford(UK)

I don't know about downloads.I found it slowed my start up.I very rarely use IE so out it went.I now have it as a hidden update.
I don't bother with live search for the same reason.When I go to Windows 7 in the autumn I'll properly not have IE installed at all.I'll run the Fox with maybe Opera as backup or maybe even Chrome.
Chrome seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds.

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Number of posts: 42 Registration date: 2009-06-04 Location: Northamptonshire

My thanks to all for the ideas.

I have discovered that Firefox is very rapid so am opting to use that in future!

Thanks again, Peter.

Number of posts: 51 Registration date: 2008-12-05 Location: Oxford(UK)

It's so fast now,I can not bear it when I have to use IE.
The Fox Rules.

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Number of posts: 74 Registration date: 2008-10-14 Location: UK

malvachat wrote:

It's so fast now,I can not bear it when I have to use IE.
The Fox Rules.

I find that both IE8 and Firefox 3.5 are very quick, and use the former more often.

Remember to update FF to version 3.5.1 to cover the latest clocked vulnerability.

Spit

I have also got some interesting info from the above posts - thanks people. Zante