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    Vista 64 - internet freezing

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by EviL Ras, Aug 7, 2009.

  1. EviL Ras

    EviL Ras Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Guys,

    Just took delivery of a Dell M1730. and a lovely machine it is. the kind people at dell even put Vista 64 on it. So i can use a full 4Gb of RAM! except i cant websurf...

    It happens on firefox 3.5 and IE8. you can click on a few webpages and suddenly no others will load. It just say waiting to load page. and sits there for literally hours without timing out.

    And yet i can ping the bbc website and i can play on steam without a problem, no network drop outs!

    I can end IE, but firefox.exe *32 just hangs in the task manager. The only fix i can find is to reboot every 10 mins if i'm websurfing!

    Any suggestions?! Its a brand new PC, so no addons yet on IE or Firefox that i'm aware of!
     
    EviL Ras, Aug 7, 2009
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