Comments on: IE 8 slow? This tweak won’t help.

By: Marcello

Marcello — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Me too have solved the problem by disabling the Java plug-in. My version of Java is:

Name: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper
Author: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Type: Oggetto browser helper
Version: 6.0.170.4
Class ID: {DBC80044-A445-435B-BC74-9C25C1C588A9}
File: jp2ssv.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

IE8 was taking 50 seconds to open the application vs. 4 sec. for Firefox. Opening additional pages/tabs were also painfully slow. Running the dll fixed the problem of the slow pages/tabs problem but did nothing to shorten the time it took to oen the program.

Once I disabled the JAVA add-on my opening time dropped to 10 sec.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Add my voice to the chorus of people for whom this worked. Disabling all addons had no difference, but re-registering this DLL sure did.

This was on my development box, so certainly it’s had its share of DLL registering and unregistering over time. To my knowledge I’ve never touched this particular DLL, but this certainly fixed the problem. Now IE is at least 3x faster to load new tabs as before.

Ain’t no placebo, neither.

By: Disable Java Plug-in That Causes IE 8 Tab Slow Opening Problem

Disable Java Plug-in That Causes IE 8 Tab Slow Opening Problem — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] What Is Java Plug-in SSV Helper and why need to install this plug-in? – with reference to Mike Dimmick’s comment: The SSV Helpers are “Secure Static Versioning”. Basically, a page that loads Java can [...]

By: acnetech

acnetech — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

i find that IE8 is more stable compared to the previous versions of Internet Explorer, i am pretty much happy with IE8

By: John Birkett

John Birkett — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I have tried this fix and found no difference. I am running Windows 7 Professional RTM with IE 8. I did find that my slowness problem was with the 32bit version (I should mention that I am running 64bit W7). When I changed to the 64bit version of IE 8 the world opened up. I should also mention, for those that don’t know and if things have changed please correct me, that Windows update will require 32bit version. I did not change my default browser to 64bit but did create a different ICON for 64bit and use that. If I try to do something that I absolutely need 32bit I just use that.
Thanks for the good posts and hope this helps others.
John

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Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] Examine the performance impact of your add-ons using the Manage Add-ons dialog. Click on Tools – Manage Add-ons, and look at the ‘Load time’ column. Some users have already discovered this. [...]

By: How to make IE open new tabs faster | PHP Scribe

How to make IE open new tabs faster | PHP Scribe — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] – Manage Add-ons, and look at the ‘Load time’ column. Some users have already discovered this. The load time shows the average time to load the add-on** and the wait time to finish [...]

By: Phil Walker

Phil Walker — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I have to admit I was not convinced this would work but registering dll’s (providing you can be sure of the source) is not usually a problem so I thought I would give it a go and ……

The fix certainly did it for me
Running IE8 on Windows 7, IE was experiencing the following:

When navigating to a new page error message popped up saying ie was trying to recover the current page on almost every page i tried to open.

Windows update failed to work – every time !!!

Accessing web services from within Visual Studio failed with java timeout errors.

All of these were fixed by registering the dll

I’m still not sure if its the registering of the dll or the process just resets some permissions, but now I can carry on with my Visual Studio development quite honestly I dont really care.

Which ever way you dice it – If it works for you – Just do it!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

As an administrator of over 30 computers and 2 small business servers in just one of the companies i manage IT for (and i have managed over half a dozen for many many years) I have to say that for those pc’s in that company that had no problem running IE8 in the first place, you are quite right, there was no significant difference using his ‘fix’.
HOWEVER the 16 computers that had serious slow-down loading pages / spinning wheel loading time opening new tabs / and almost non-existant open new window commands have all improved drastically running this tweak/fix or whatever you want to call it.
Now you can disagree all you like. But in many years looking after these systems i know when they just need a reboot or an installation is corrupt or even when one of our many users is just trying to run too many programs at one time.
All i know is, there was a problem on a lot of computers, and no problem on others. Using his ‘fix’ and suddenly we have no problems at all.
Suggesting his fix will not help when you are attempting to test it on a machine that you never stated even had a problem with IE8 in the first place is a little short-sighted.
I can understand a few people joining in on a forum and saying they had instant results because of the placebo effect but there are more than a few serious technically minded people that have also found desirable effects from this method.

I also note a few people putting this idea down claiming it never helped them. Some openly admitted they never had a problem in the first place so should hardly be surprised by the non-effectiveness! As for others, well I have to interject that perhaps they have other issues relating to their performance. I find it highly amusing to see several forums where people state it has had no effect fixing their IE8 and shortly after stating the problem has been there since IE7 also.

The short answer is, it doesn’t hurt your system to run this ‘fix’. And more than just a few ‘computer illiterates’ have reported good results after trying it. It was clear that at least on some of our systems that there were issues registering DLL files during the installation of IE8 because they already existed and were not actually ‘installed’ during the IE8 update and that since the apparent ‘fix’ there have been no recurrances of the problems.

Just because you tested it, does not mean you had the particular setup or software / add-ons etc that others have and therefor saw no positive results.

I would be interested to know exactly how many systems you tried this on, what software was installed, which add-ons you use, and especially if you even had an issue with your IE8 before you tried this before you debunk the whole idea.
I for one rarely put down a ‘fix’ or tweak just because it has no effect on any of the many systems i manage until i have at least asked around for a response from others who use completely different set-ups to us.

By: Polarbears

Polarbears — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Yeah after i used unlocker to move my windows/system 32 directory, my computer has ran stable as ever.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Is it just me, or does it seem like we’re all doing Microsoft’s job for them… while they get paid.. and we don’t get a dime!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

diabling Java add-in is the only thing that has worked for me. I tried installing the latest version – 6.0.140.8 and that had the same problem

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Turning off the ‘Google Toolbar’ add-in fixed my issue.

By: JOE

JOE — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I thought it worked. but after a while, same problem. Open multiple tabs and stuck at “Opening….” close that, open a brand new window and it usually works. Seems to hate pop ups from links on other pages. It is really annoying to the point I am ready to remove IE 8 and use something else.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Sorry gang, for whatever reason, it worked for me even with multiple tabs open. Thanks Ed.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I had very slow tab response in IE8 and naturally, Ed Bott’s workaround had no effect. What did work, however, was UNimunizing IE from Spybot S&D. IE8 is now my browser of choice.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

This Tweak is working for me… perfectly ..but repeat sevral times @ “CMD” prompt as an administrator.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Never mind what I said. It always takes half a minute or more the first time IE8 is loaded after a system restart. Then after that, it loads as it normally should. The fix did nothing to help the problem.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

One of my clients started to complain about this problem after I upgraded their stations to IE8. I timed with a stopwatch that it took 42 seconds to load IE8 and then the homepage. After registering this DLL it only took 14 seconds to load IE8 and the homepage.

By: Teressa

Teressa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Well I was one of the people experiencing more than slow load times… My previously stable system hung and crashed repeatedly. CPU and Ram were consumed at an alarming rate when IE8 was running. I ran the “fix” four days ago and have not had one problem since then. I don’t know about your computer at all but…

*shrug*

It worked for me and it’s not a perceived improvement – it’s an actual “no-more-blue-screen-of-death” improvement.

By: HometownNursery

HometownNursery — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

And, Yes, It DOES work!

By: HometownNursery

HometownNursery — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the regsvr32 command – What A Diff!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

There are a lot of good ideas here but, no one seems to be mentioning the obvious! Check your add-ons people. First fire up IE8 or with no add-ons. Click start, accessories, system tools and scroll down. If this way launches significantly faster then you have and issue with one or more add-ons. In the browser click tools, then choose manage add-ons. Once open lok all the way to the last column on the right. This is load time. Yes, indeed boys and girls it actually shows how long it takes each add-on to load. Do the math and you may find this totals to a significant amount. Mine added up to more than 3 seconds. That’s 3 seconds added on to the normal start up time. My two biggest culprits? Java and Skype. Each took a full second to load. The next culprits were Windows Live Toolbar at .66ms and Live Search Helper at .33ms for a whole other second.

For myself I chose to disable the Java and Skype add-ons. If I also disable the Live Search my IE8 starts almost as fast as Googles Chrome Browser.

By: FixIE8 SlowOpening

FixIE8 SlowOpening — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

My system seemed to hate IE8 and my other browsers did as well until I discovered the root cause of the 1 minute + hang times. I tried many tweaks to no avail until this one. If you look at your restricted sites under options, internet options, security, restricted sites and see alot of addresses in the “sites” list – your problem lies there. IE8 has a bug that really, really slows down the browser with these restricted sites. (Note: All versions of Spybot SD added many restricted sites to this list.) You can go through 1 by 1 and delete them or do a registry edit – tweak. Warning: editing the registry is easy but can be very dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing – back up first. To do this tweak open up the registry using regedit and go to Hkey_Current_User, software, microsoft, windows, current version, internet settings, zone map, domains. This domains key should contain all your “restricted sites”. Simply delete this domains key in its entirety. Then recreate the key under the zone map key. Now you may want to reboot or at least close then reopen IE8 or other browsers that are IE8 dependent. Should now be fast as ever. FixIE8