IE8 Startup time?

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Deimos

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Hi everyone.

I have 2 systems, one of them is vastly superior to the other and I have found this strange anomaly with IE8

Specs of System #1
Vista (x64) - Install date 22nd of Feb 2009
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz
Radeon 4870 1GB (Asus dark knight)
Asus Maximus II Formula
8 GB DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz
2 X Western Digital 500GB RE in RAID 0 config
IE8 Startup time is about 5 - 6 seconds

Specs of system #2
Vista (x86) - Install date 23rd of March 2009
Lenovo Laptop
Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 1.86Ghz
Integrated Intel video 32MB shared with system ram
2GB DDR2 Corsair value ram @ 666Mhz
1 x Hitachi 5400rpm SATA laptop HDD
IE8 startup time is <1 second

Both systems are running fully patched and up-to-date Vista Ultimate with Aero enabled.

As I type this I think I have answered my own question, the difference is that the desktop has Spybot and is fully immunized, however the laptop is not, I'll test it further and post back later with my findings.
 
Maybe one has a different number of plugins installed that IE has to check on startup? Flash/Adobe/Silverlight/Webtanget/other trash?

Spybot has a real-time system watcher/scanner now? Wow, you should just learn to be weary of dangerous sites, and schedule for an off peak, early am scan, one a week.

Virus scanner + spyware scanner trying to hit every accessed file seems like a major system bottleneck.
 
Superfetch may be cacheing IE8 on the slower machine but not on the newer one. It's based on how often you use the program and approximately what times. If you're using IE8 on the older machine at approximately the same time every day but randomly throughout the day on the newer one, that may explain it. Also, if you installed the new system recently (which you did) there is less for it to cache because it hasn't seen you use it much, so IE is one of the few things it knows you use since you put it on right away. The faster (older installed) system has seen a lot more of the programs you use and might be caching as much as it can, stuff you use a lot more than IE8.
 
Menelmarar said:
Maybe one has a different number of plugins installed that IE has to check on startup? Flash/Adobe/Silverlight/Webtanget/other trash?

Spybot has a real-time system watcher/scanner now? Wow, you should just learn to be weary of dangerous sites, and schedule for an off peak, early am scan, one a week.

Virus scanner + spyware scanner trying to hit every accessed file seems like a major system bottleneck.
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I like to download porn, porn sites frequently have spyware, spybot very effectively blocks spyware.

And no, Spybot does not have active protection, it just blocks known bad sites (prevents IE from accessing them) using a plugin system of some sort.

I don't run an active antivirus software either.

Anyway the point is, its only the load times that are slow, its fine once loaded.

I found that it actually is Spybot causing the slow load times, after I immunized with Spybot on the laptop IE8 loads much slower now, about the same as the faster box, so it has nothing to do with superfetch.
 
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