Microsoft Issues Hotfix for Internet Explorer Slowdowns

• Aug 17, 2014

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CommanderFrank

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Microsoft is having a bad week for security updates, but the good news is that the company is getting better about fixing the messes they create. I guess practice makes perfect. Microsoft has issued a remedy for a slowing Internet Explorer as an out of hand Hotfix.

There are two Internet Explorer updates that, when applied to any iteration of the browser between Internet Explorer 7 and 11 (yikes), could eventually cause the browser to grind to a halt.

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• Aug 17, 2014

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evilsofa

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Also, as a reminder, if you saw BSODs after this week's update (mostly on Win7 64-bit), or have not yet applied those updates to avoid the problem, the simple fix is to delete the C:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT file; it will be auto-regenerated and no longer cause a problem with the update.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft...-update-248476

 

• Aug 17, 2014

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Wolfkin

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Applied update, big difference, IE is much more responsive and load pages faster now.

 

• Aug 18, 2014

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revmouse

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well that TOTALLY didn't work! all java scripts blocked.no vids,ads,links.

 

• Aug 18, 2014

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mt2e

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They should just disband the ie team...the recent reddit q/a further enhanced my stance on this.