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    Opening photos on SR takes forever after installing IE8 I think?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by heavenly_wild, Apr 21, 2009.

  1. heavenly_wild

    heavenly_wild Notebook Deity

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    My 3-month old Sony Vaio SR laptop is taking an age to open up photos - and I think it was since I installed IE8.

    Since the window boxes within Windows Vista are run using IE technology, I am thinking it is to blame?

    So when I open a photo in a photo album, it takes about 8 seconds to open. The photo sizes are only around 1mb each. Once the first photo is opened, I can browse to the next photo quite quickly. But if I close the picture window down and open another, it takes another 8 seconds to load up the photo.

    Can anyone advise what could the potential problem be? Everything else in my SR works fine.

    Thanks!
     
    heavenly_wild, Apr 21, 2009
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    I am using IE8 on my Z series and I do not have such problem.
     
    baibaiman, Apr 21, 2009
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    Anyone have ideas on what the cause of the problem may be?
     
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    Try remove your IE8 and check if the problem is still exist or not.
    If still exist than the problem is not with your IE8
     
    baibaiman, Apr 21, 2009
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    OK dumb question, how do you uninstall IE8 off the computer? It's not a standard uninstall procedure?!
     
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    With Vista OS is to go to Control Panel>Programs and
    Features>Installed Updated right click to and confirm uninstall IEB Beta
     
    baibaiman, Apr 21, 2009
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    Thanks mate.
     
    heavenly_wild, Apr 21, 2009
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