explorer problems

since i logged in this morning been having problems i assume its internet explorer, pages taking ages to come up, i was putting pics up in gc and the whole lot went off when i go to change page it goes white, does anyone know whats going on here, should i call my server

 

marley i havnt got firefox, this with explorer has just started to happen never had this when i had my other pc , it seems ok now, when i got my new pc and bt helped me get on they did it through explorer they told me that was the only way i could get logged on to web

 

This might or might not be related, but my whole computer including internet slowed down considerably over the past few weeks.

The other day I tried to change the desktop background and found that all I got was a blue screen without a picture. I went to the display option in the control panel and just chanced changing the appearance from "Classic" colour to something else...I chose "Eggplant." Hey presto, the picture appeared on the desktop background and the whole computer system has speeded up, including the internet. Why this should be, I've no idea. Maybe the computer developed a glitch which only affected the "Classic colour " mode.

 

jack iff its happened to you must be the internet then as it wasnt just on here it was my e-mail it just keeps stopping every so often very slow, then all of a sudden its fine and quickens up again

 

i cant believe this i just answered a post and the whole page went white i had to come out of gc and back in.

 

rosa, how did you sort this out? Are you still with BT? I'm with Virgin and I know there was a problem a couple of days ago in the NE16 area don't know if you come under that? We don't, so I couldn't understand how I'd used the net fine then a couple of hours later it wasn't working! Had to change IP address or something?????

Anyway looks like you're up & running now so fingers crossed.

cheers

 

It's not too bad an idea to clear Internet Explorer's cache now and again:

Click on 'Tools', and then on 'Delete Browsing History' you can then select which elements to clear, clicking on 'Delete All' does as it implies, it deletes everything from the cache (including any stored Passwords to sites like this, so be careful)

I had a problem with performance (Tiscali) after I upgraded from 1Mb/s to 8Mb/s I was lucky to get 0.5Mb/s, the Tiscali Help Desk advised me to clear the Cache and it burst into life and I'm seeing 3-4 Mb/s on a regular basis.

Also, if you tend to keep the Computer switched on all the time, you can suffer from 'memory leaks' where some misbehaving programs don't actually release all the memory they have used when they close. Over a period of time this can severely affect performance, so it's a good idea to shutdown and re-boot the Computer on a reasonably regular basis. One of the signs of memory 'starvation' is when you display a page in Explorer and instead of seeing a picture you only see a square box with a little red X in it.

Regarding the IP Address, it's normal to be allocated an address every time you connect to the service provider, the address you are allocated may change and it's not normally anything you need to worry about, it's all done under the covers.

 

hi borrowers and doogle.
im with bt it seems ok now but what doogle says makes sense closing down pc as i must admit i do keep it on for a long time.
i will look to clear cache but will also be a bit frightened in case i clear the wrong things

 

I can`t find "tools"
I go all programmes , accessories,then i can see system tools, but none say delete browsing history :skp:

 

Pam,

You need to start Internet Explorer, and go to the 'Tools' menu item in that.

 

ive not done that yet, when i got this new pc, bt got me up and running and they opened up in internet explorer is there any other way you can get in i get this big freeze page up then i have to click on login at top then another page comes up with sign in to yahoo , then sign in to get to my bt homepage, my other pc i didnt have all this rigmarole.

 

I'm not that familar wih how BT set-up their Customers, but you can change the Home page of Explorer (ie the page that is displayed when you start Explorer). Run Explorer and select the 'Tools' menu. From the drop-down that appears, select 'Internet Options'. You will see 'Home Page', the current Home page(s) will be highlighted, you can overwrite whatever is there with the address(es) of the page(s) you want (eg the btinternet sign-in page). When you've made the change click on 'Apply' and then 'OK'.

With Explorer 7 you can have multiple Home pages by entering the address of each one on a new line in the 'Home Page' box. When you have multiple Home pages each is displayed in a new Tab when you start Explorer, you can switch between them by just clicking on the Tab.

 

thanks doogle i found it :gnthb:

 

doogle done it thanks ever so much, got rid of that my freeze homepage its gone back to bt homepage, seems much better now, will know more when i log out and back in what comes up will let you know