why is yahoo coming up so slow on my comp?
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its either that you have a slow internet connection, a slow bandwidth speed, or its just simply all in ur luck...wait, that doesn't make sense...
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I am glad to know that I am not the only one who finds that everything related to Yahoo is running slow in the past week or so.   I have broadband and Windows XP Prof.  For sure I don't use Nortons or Mcafee as they are junk.    \n\nI use Avast an until this past week I have had quick response.  Now I notice that Yahoo has slowed down.   I even removed their security device, at the bottom of your tray when you are in IE, there is a white squire box with a round yellow ball an "!", Closed the phishing device as I don't shop or bank on line, so I don't need Yahoo to scan each webpage before it opens to see if the page is rogue.    Made some difference in speed, still slow in my opinion.\n\nMust be Yahoo Servers, as I can think of nothing else. \n\nClinical Psychiatrist, France\n\nExcuse my english
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Might be system is slow....try some time later
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hey this isn't because of Yahoo, i have yahoo and WinXp SP2  and i have no problems, soo nothing is wrong with yahoo, it's probrolly do to some system instability
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It maybe because of the Dial-Up Connection. It might be going so slow that windows thinks that its jsut not going and it cancels the request and give you some stupid error. I had that problem when I used to be on that horribly super slow dial up conenciton.
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No, Yahoo Messenger takes too few of space...and it doesn't affect speed.\nTry checking the speed of your connection and making an upgrade.
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I have this sometimes when it's busy or takes too long.\n\nDid you change any settings?\nTry downloading the latest yahoo and reinstall or reinstall the old version.\n\nCheck your firewall isnt blocking it.\n\ngood luck\nstef
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Denise there's lots of reasons for this, and as I've found out in the last week, not easy to pinpoint and therefore impossible to rectify easily.\n\nThis is what I've attempted to do:\n\nSystem cleanup, followed by a defrag;\nDownload Mozilla Firefox;\nDownload and use frequently CCleaner;\nComplain to my ISP;\nRun a full system anti-virus scan;\nAsked for help here at Y!A and other sites re "Cannot find server" problem;\nSearched Y!A, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft websites;\nUninstalled and re-installed my BT Yahoo browser;\nDid Start>Run>"cmd" Enter/OK> "ping uk.answers.yahoo.com" Enter to see if there's any 'time-outs' (although I didn't know what to do when there was!!!);\nand probably a bit more that I can't remember.\n\nin short, this last week's been a nightmare, but it seems to have calmed down quite significantly to a fairly tolerable rate of occurence.  But I don't know if it's because of anything I did or if 'it just sorted itself out'.\n\nMy advice is to try at least some of these things above, and cross your fingers that someone else here can give you better advice than I.
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well could be thousand of problems , you have to explain it more , but it could be problem of text size or connection problem or browser problem.\nclick View > text size on internet explorer and see if its medium.\nto test connection see if pages are loading slower than before or not.\nyou can also try another browser or reinstall your current browser.
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could be yahoo's servers are busy or slow. it happens to me every once in a while
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when it refreshes the ip, it might take long enough to drop yahoo, and then yahoo signs right back on, you might need to tweak your settings, download tcp optimizer from sqspeedguide and try optimizing the connection settings, it is free and usually helps a little to a lot
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Iv'e noticed that ANYTIME Yahoo is playing with anything that deals with Email (like when they added 'Answers' the mail slows down.. all you can do is just wait.
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Sbc Yahoo works best on windows xp machines with Pentium processor's. there are allot of setting that affect the way it works. your fire Wall setting,Internet options settings,and of course good computer maintenance(cleaning Your  temp files,and defraging your disc drives. Running to many background services,and open programs will also slow it down. I Suggest you download the most recent update from sbc,clean up your hard drive (I like to use a Program Called cc cleaner free download) and check your fire wall,and options setting (you may need help for the last one)
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Yahoo has been having trouble all over the place since they introduced the new beta e-mail version. It is slow and buggy as hell. Even after switching back, I now have to repeatedly hit the refresh button to get past the error messages generated trying to access mty account. You can also hit the back button repeatedly and go absolutely nowhere.\n\nReally hope SOMEONE GOT FIRED...
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low memory, virus, to many open programs. try closing all programs and just run virus scanner and see if it speed up ur computer.
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Double check your browser make sure it accepts cookies.  You will also need to make sure that your firewall settings allow Yahoo to use cookies, run active x, java, scripts - basically the whole nine yards.  You can also try clearing old cookies and your cache, then close out your browser and restart.  An old page, script, or cookie could have become corrupted, but clearing old junk out and restarting the browser should fix it.  Also, Yahoo seems to run more smoothly in Internet Explorer than in Firefox or Netscape, so you can try using IE and see if that helps as well.
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It's very possible that you have a virus, or spyware, or even more probable, a trojan.  Clean it out, and it should be faster.  Also try defragmenting the hard drive as well.