Page load times are slow

Couple of things for you to check into Sheal
1. is your antivirus up to date - if so, do a full scan
2. do you have SpyBotsearchanddestroy? if so run it, if now download it and run it.
3. have you done a disk Cleanup lately? Here is how to do that

 

For me it is getting to the point of giving up, It is only the good craik on here I keep trying
If there are more than ten people accessing the server, then it is pointless trying
Six or seven times unable to connect, (Just check on the top left of the first page as to who is on, rather than waste any more time) this is just since the upgrade
I would tend to think that the bandwidth is limited

I am on 120mb and every other site in the world is instant access, milli seconds
At least I can actually eventually get on here, I can not get on any RHS IP at all
unless I do not use IE

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Hi everyone, I'm back after five days of almost complete breakdown. My computer is now prancing around like a spring lamb, so for those of you who are still experiencing slow down, the following is what I had to do.

Without the knowledge of background computing myself, my son and I got together and he 'remotely' took over as he lives in America.

I have had issues with slow down and other problems for the last six months and since the site change it got worse, last week amounted to almost total failure of my system.

Before starting I backed up on an external drive just to be on the safe side. My son with me assisting has done a complete overhaul and clean up. Updating everything possible, AVG, IE etc. From there we downloaded (not before time) a free CCleaner and put that to work. Andrew (my son) gave my toolbars a clean-up aswell, getting rid of a lot things I didn't need. We fininished with de-fragmentation that took an hour.

After five hours work on it my computer has a new lease of life, everything is up to speed. I have now just one 'glitch' and I'm not sure whether it is GC based or not. When I return to the home page with the Gardeners Corner heading at the top I get a momentary blip on the heading before the rest of the page appears. Can anyone help me with that please.

I hope this post may be of help to other members regarding 'slow down'.

Thanks everyone for the help you have given me along the way.

 

I've not noticed it till now but its almost stopped as far as I'm concerned.
Only started happening this evening and everything else is acting normally

 

Are there more members/ visitors accessing GC than normal tonight ? A bit slow for me too.

 

I have had internet connection issues this last week as well as my other problems, I'll be making contact with my server people tomorrow.

 

Its ok now, working again for me.
Just came to a standstill for a while and now seems fine.
Does that sound like my PC or a server problem?

 

I've had lots of problems with GC since the changeover, very, very, very slow in loading whereas other sites were not, including getting logged out on page changes .... grrrr

Had t'other half do a complete clean on my computer yesterday and things are incredibly better, but GC is still slow, sorry to say. Without going back and looking, someone said something about loading GC, going making a cup of tea and coming back and hopefully they were loaded, if not, go get a biccy and come back ... it really was like that for me but not with other forums.

All sort of okay now.

 

Pete I think it's server issues, mine has returned to normal now. Or, just a thought, many of us are on different servers could it be atmosphere issues. My car radio kept de-tuning itself when I was out earlier.

 

I'm on Virgin broadband so I dont think it anything to do with atmospherics Sheal.
As I say its OK again now but things almost stopped for a while.

 

I am with BT and live 200 yards away from their Telephone exchange and have no other problems with my PC ( very fast) other than with GC. Sorry

 

I'm with Talk Talk.
Usually I don't really have an issue with GC. Today seems exceedingly slow. I'm seeing almost a minute from clicking on a topic to actually getting in.
This is a lot slower than normal, even for GC.

 

Ccleaner was going to be my next suggestion. It's a little programme but clears out hundreds of Mbs of cookies and stuff. If you are having trouble, do please download it and run it. It makes a power of difference. It's safe and it's free!

I run it often and it invariably removes upwards of 200Mbs of unnecessary stuff. I left it for a couple of months once and it removed 854Mb!