# Irate Internet Explorer question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990 "2003-11-07T23:43:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![comradegonzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@comradegonzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/comradegonzo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990/1 "2003-11-07T23:43:34Z")

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Last night I updated Macromedia Shockwave Player. Today IE is screwed up as follows:

Any sort of dragging takes perhaps a second to earn a responce. The delay is greater on more complicated sites (eBay’s is terrible, Yahoo Mail’s login page has little to no trouble).

So, does anyone have an idea what’s wrong with it? I’ve already removed shockwave, to no avail.

–CG

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990/2 "2003-11-08T00:21:44Z")

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Have you cleared your Temporary Internet Files? If not, go to **Tools|Internet Options** , hit **Delete Files** , check the box for **Delete all offline content** , and hit **OK**. This may take a while if you haven’t done it recently.

Adware and spyware may also cause slowness. You should run [Spybot](http://www.safer-networking.org/) and [Ad-aware](http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) to check for them.

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**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990/3 "2003-11-08T01:13:14Z")

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Are you running one of the XP Operating Systems? You might try System Restore if you have it enabled.

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irate-internet-explorer-question/211990/4 "2003-11-08T02:09:40Z")

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Does this only happen with IE - or are other apps similarly affected? If others are affected, something may be hogging your CPU.