Technical help please

[piskieinboots]

I have a new computer running Vista - it really struggles to load GYO page and if it does it takes eons to load and then keeps dropping out.

I have ZoneAlarm AV and FW

I have allowed GYO as a Trusted site (made no difference)

All other forums, web pages load at normal expected speed and do not drop out

None of you are experiencing this so it is a local issue not a GYO problem, but it is driving me bandy and I may even have to stop posting cos I almost have no hair left

Any ideas at all? What have I missed?

Ben, can you come around please, I have left your details at the Main Gate so that the man with the gun lets you in... thanks

[lynda66]

i'm having the same problem ..... i think you missed it in the last post ....... it's the same on internet explorer and firefox ....... and yup it's doing my head in too ..... and i'm on vista

[piskieinboots]

yes I did miss it - sorry - it will have been one of those times when it timed out

I just can't think what else to allow, it was fine before so it isn't the site it is me/my system

[lynda66]

i spent all day the other day anti virussing, scanning uninstalling reinstalling and it's still exactly the same, and i have no idea why ........ and it's only this site....... and mine was fine till a couple of weeks ago.

[Catrina]

I'm on Vista as well and though there are alot of times when it is very slow to load the thing that gets my goat is the advert at the top which loads and then you have to scroll down to see what has been posted, then you hit on one you want to read and hey ho there is the advert again and you have to scroll down. I know adverts make money but isnt there a way to show them without having to scroll down. I never read them and I dont know anyone who does. Sorry rant over.

[Nicos]

I may even have to stop posting cos I almost have no hair left

Any ideas at all? ... thanks

Buy a wig???


..sorry- as you know -I'm the last person to help you with computer probs..I can't even cope with one which is working OK!!!

Come on Ben..help a lass out in need- the guys with the guns will make sure you leave...so you don't need to worry about Piskie kidnapping you as an extra Crimbo pressie!!...now THERE'S an idea gals!!!

[piskieinboots]

it has just taken me 10 minutes to get back into this site - this can't continue .....send help

[BrideXIII]

one thing is for certain, you should NOT have more than one anti-virus on the machine, pick one, AVG is the best, and stick with that and remove the others, they conflict with each other.

[lynda66]

i only have avg ....... which is turned off in between scans cos i can't be bothered with it popping up ....... the last time i had a virus was in 2004 when i was on dial up and son was trying to find porn sites ...... before that, never had one since i stopped using outlook express ....... i never let emails onto my pc the only thing i have running constaltly is the windows firewall thing, and spyware blaster, and there wasn't a problem with any of it till a couple of weeks ago.

[BrideXIII]

well bear with me, i am looking at a adblockker addon for IE, let me trial it for a few minutes and i'll give you all the download link, it may speed things up.

[BrideXIII]

Download IE7Pro

not sure how much difference it will make, but it does what i need.


there is also this:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...oad-20468.html

which i use a lot when gaming, it shuts down everything that vista is running in the background which you dont actually need, make the machine run a LOT faster

[Rocketron]

I think you'll find it's nothing to do with your computers. It's more likely that we are (again) under attack from "spammers". This always slows down speeds as there are loads more "people" using the site at the same time.
Don't quote me, though.

[shirlthegirl43]

Madmax here - Good on yer boy lynda66!! A good red blooded male.

AVG is one of the best AV programs about - but it is RAM heavy. Use AVG 8 free. get rid of ZA firewall. If any of you have a wireless access point and router/modem this piece of kit has a built in hardware firewall anyway. You will not need any s/w firewall. Most are not compatible with network drives, mapped drives or network printers anyway.

NOD32 is another good AV program. Very lightweight on system resources.

Also check the RAM availability - Firefox places a load on RAM... Try Google Chrome as a browser. IE7... Nasty...

We have 4Gb RAM on Shirls' machine and I have set the paging file (swap space) to 1.5x the physical RAM available.

Outlook Express is a magnet for viruses. Use Thunderbird or Outlook 2K3/7.

Good luck.

[Snadger]

I think the common denominator here is Vista! No problems with my wind-up steam version of XP!

[BrideXIII]

yep vista is a very heavy user of ram, which is why i like smart close if i am having cpu issues