- Strange IE Problem
- Posted by Andrew Watiker on January 28th, 2004
When I start downloads in Internet Explorer, after I click the Save or Open
button the download Window appears to freeze for maybe 30 seconds.
Afterwards the download contines normally. I have tried reinstalling
Windows since this problem started but have not been able to fix it. I am
running IE 6.0 SP1 on XP Pro SP1 specs below:
Pentium 4 3.0c overclocked to 3.5 Ghz.
1024MB DDR400 RAM
Gigabyte 8KNXP 875p Motherboard
DVD+/-RW and DVD-ROM
Linksys WUSB11 802.11 B Network Card to a cable connection
Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB Card
- Posted by Duane Arnold on January 28th, 2004
"Andrew Watiker" <DmctNY8@optonline.net> wrote in
news:tJDRb.20940$w41.10992252@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv. net:
You're not the only one trying to download files and you're not the only
one on the Internet. So maybe the download server is busy and your
connection has to wait for a bit. Maybe, someone at your ISP is sucking
up bandwidth doing something as well.
Also, if using a dial-up connection, the phone company will route your
connection to another path to prevent congestion of traffic in an area.
At that point, the connection could have been routed to the moon and back
in that case, causing a delay and it can happen right in the middle of a
download.
You should be happy that you got the download in a reasonable time
period. A 30 second delay is nothing to be concerned about.
Duane 
Duane
- Posted by DeMoN LaG on January 28th, 2004
Trent© <trentsauder@hotmail.com> wrote in
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This is very true. If it is being saved to a network drive, and that drive
is temporarily unavailable (offline, spun down, anything), there will be a
pause. I see this a lot with my Firebird browser. It loads off a network
drive, and it is very modulized (things like SSL are not loaded at startup,
but on demand). I browse for 20 minutes at night, then hit my bank's site
up to look at stuff and there is a 30 second pause while the file server
spins the drive back up so it can load the SSL module.
Definitely a consideration.
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- Posted by Andrew Watiker on January 28th, 2004
I am not saving to a network drive, I am saving to my local C: drive. It is
not related to download bandwith because it happens before the download
starts and it doesn't matter is the download is a few megabytes or hundreds
of megabytes. The only thing I can think of, is it possible the delay is my
hard drive spinning back from my virtual memory partition? The only strange
thing about that being it is that I don't think that usually takes 30
seconds. Also this doesn't seem to happen in Mozilla 1.6.
1. Click download link
2. Dialog appears asking save or open
3. (regardless of choice) 30 or so second freeze of the download window
4. Download starts at 0k and contiues as normal
I have realistic throuput of 3000k/900k on this computer.
"DeMoN LaG" <n@a> wrote in message
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- Posted by Jerry G. on January 29th, 2004
The temporary Internet Cache files may be too many or too large. This has
been the problem when I have had this with my machines, and or some clients.
Check about cleaning up the temp files for Internet Explorer. This is a
common cause of your delay. If you also find your email having a large
delay, also check in to cleaning up the email temp files as well. When using
the cleanup utility take care about what you do.
You can access the temp file cleanup by opening My Computer, right key click
on the main drive, and then select properties. Click on Disk Cleanup, and
work from there. Put a check mark and highlight Temporary Files, and then
Internet Temporary Files. Clean up the older ones. See if there are any that
are excessively large. MS Windows is not perfect, and leaves a lot of
unnecessary files behind that are no longer required.
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"Andrew Watiker" <DmctNY8@optonline.net> wrote in message
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When I start downloads in Internet Explorer, after I click the Save or Open
button the download Window appears to freeze for maybe 30 seconds.
Afterwards the download contines normally. I have tried reinstalling
Windows since this problem started but have not been able to fix it. I am
running IE 6.0 SP1 on XP Pro SP1 specs below:
Pentium 4 3.0c overclocked to 3.5 Ghz.
1024MB DDR400 RAM
Gigabyte 8KNXP 875p Motherboard
DVD+/-RW and DVD-ROM
Linksys WUSB11 802.11 B Network Card to a cable connection
Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB Card
