Travel Technology - Ot- IE 6 running slow?

I have noticed that IE 6 is running very slow on my home computer. At work I'm still running IE 6 because we haven't finished testing IE 7 and confirming all stability issues.

But my question is this:

Is anyone else noticing IE 6 running slowly, and has upgrading to IE 7 helped at all?

Thanks.

Do you shut the machine down and reboot every now and then? If not, you should as IE6 gets itself crossthreaded.

what's your cpu usage when it bogs?

i don't use ie6/7 because i think it has too many problems. i use firefox.

Have you cleaned out your temporary files? If you have a lot of them or the directory if full, it could take some extra time every time you open a webpage.

Flush out the cashe often as noted. I use a free program at www.ccleaner.com to do this and get rid of other accumulated crap on my computers. It seems to get good press. Good luck.

MisterNice

I've found that my laptop (which runs IE6) has lots of problems with slowdowns after I've opened a PDF file - it seems to be acrobat that kills the machine rather than IE - even after you've closed Acrobat. Is it possible that's your problem?

I run IE 7 on another machine (for various work reasons that demand it) and Firefox on my main machine. IE 7 does appear to run better than IE6.

I've found that my laptop (which runs IE6) has lots of problems with slowdowns after I've opened a PDF file - it seems to be acrobat that kills the machine rather than IE - even after you've closed Acrobat. Is it possible that's your problem?

I run IE 7 on another machine (for various work reasons that demand it) and Firefox on my main machine. IE 7 does appear to run better than IE6.

No- thats not the problem, though I have that problem too.

I think what it is, is that when the internet is left open too long, it starts to get slow (especially if the computer goes to sleep while the internet is still open). Frequent shutdowns seem to be helping.

About the Adobe problem- has anybody found a solution to that? I click on an acrobat file and it takes forever to open- sometimes I have to click on the file again for it to open. At work, I have Acrobat 8 (6 at home), and it doesn't have that problem, thought it uses a tremendous amount of resources running in the background all the time.