I am getting 20% cpu usage on internet explorer on the www.yahoo.com main webpage when idle. Anyone else?
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Sounds like it is not really idle... I would suspect some "adware/spyware" is "busy"
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Do you use the windows update, in your start menu? If you don't have your computer set, for automatic updates, you can do the updates, from your start menu. I have been using internet explorer for four years now, and I never have any problems with it. Make sure that you have your firewall, and anti-virus up to date, and use an anti-spyware program. I also have firefox loaded on my computer, but I don't like it as well as IE..I don't use outlook express, for my email program, I use incredimail Xe, it's a great email program, if you want to try something different..
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First thing is that in some instances IE and Netscape have been known not to play well with each other.  You can, if it is an option, choose one of them only and uninstall the other.  You can also try increasing the size of your internet cache, this can be done in the tools/options section of the software.  Last choice would be to increase the amount of memory your pc has, if you are out of memory, you are out of cache space and unfortunately, out of luck.  Cboy
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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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just to let you know - this has nothing to do with YOUR computer.  It all has to do with Yahoo!, not your computer.\nNeed I say again?\nYou are probably doing something wrong, or its just your internet.
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Give up. It's impossible to make IE do ANYTHING properly. That's why everybody uses Firefox or Safari.
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Do these :- (suppose you want to go to answers.yahoo.com)\n\n1. Choose Run from the start menu\n2. Type "IEXPLORE ANSWERS.YAHOO.COM" (only is you have IE)\n3. Click OK\n\nThe Internet Explorer pops up with Yahoo! Answers\nThis can be done for Internet Explorer\nIf you are using FireFox or others do this:-\n\n1. Open the browser\n2. Hit Alt + Ctrl + Del\n3. Note the name of the file that is running your browser (How? If you are using Win XP then click the Processes Tab and Click the Mem Usage Heading till the contents arange in acending order with the amount of memory usage. The first item will be the file running the browser. If you are using othe Win then on the same Alt + Ctrl + Del window the first task will be the file running your browser.)\n4. Open Run in Start\n5. Type the file name (without .exe)(suppose the file name was frfox) "FRFOX ANSWERS.YAHOO.COM"\n6. Hit OK\n\nThe browser pops up with Yahoo! Answers in it.\n\n\n\nThis holds good for any existing url
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Depending on how your computer is physically connected to your Broadband connection, the most likely answer is that your computer is going into some type of power-saving mode when it has been idle for a time and as part of that power-saving sequence, it is turning off its network connection to the Broadband.\n\nThen, when your computer is coming out of its idle-state, it is unable to reactivate its link to the Broadband connection and thus nothing comes up in IE.\n\nI would check your computer's settings in regards to its idle-state, network and power-saver settings.
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What I think is that about 86% people use Internet Explorer as their browser. Due to this their servers get jammed and also most of the hackers attack Internet Explorer.\nThese are the 2 prime problems which I observe.\nMost probably Yahoo does not get slow its the speed of the browser which makes it slow.\nI observed it because I use three browsers at a time.\nSounds funny but its true.\nI use Firefox, Opera and some times for MSN services Internet Explorer.\nSo if u can, change ur browser.
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That was happening to me.  Try using Firefox instead.  It's better anyway although (lol) I'm on my new computer using IE.  :)
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IE7 is still in BETA. Don't download it yet. Use firefox instead.
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Ok there is a chance that you might have a virus.\nBut probably there is a program running in the background.\nLike I normally have Folding@home running in the background and this program uses lots of cpu. One way to check if any programs is running in the background is to Right click on the taskbar(where the start and time clock is on your desktop)and now click on Task Manager.And while in task manager click on applications. Try to end task all the running applications and now click on performance and see it the cpu is still idle at 80%
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What is your browser? such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.
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I dont have any problems and Im running IE 7.0. If it persists, then maybe you should downgrade back to 6.0? Or if you like the features that 7.0 gives you, then you might enjoy http://www.mozilla.com since the interface is similiar.
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Try emptying the cache.\n\n\nClick on:\n\nTools\nOptions\nthe tab marked "cache" \nthe "clear cash" button.\n\n\nThat might help. One night while answering at Yahoo it was running slower and slower. So I went to some other sites and it ran just fine. The problem was that Yahoo was just very busy. There was nothing wrong with my firefox.\n\nBut you do need to keep current with spyware and other such junk.\n\nGo to\nwww.spybot.com      spyware \nwww.avg.com           antivirus\nwww.grisoft.com        adware\n\nThose should find any junk lurking there and kill it.
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Try bringing up your Windows Task Manager to see if something is consuming your CPU.
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me no unner stan qwestian!\n\nr u using a dial-up modem? If you Click on the Start button and then RUN, then type taskmgr, what process do you see as taking majority of you CPU?  \n\nPlease eksplane.