If all Internet connections are running slow, the problem is the computer, right?
My computer is running REALLY slowly. This started a couple of days ago.
I have tried the wi-fi connection here at home (but my teenager's new computer is running just fine on the same wi-fi connection). Usually no problem for either of us with this home wi-fi connection.
I have tried the wi-fi aircard (through my cell phone provider) at home and in various other locations. Usually no problem at all with this aircard.
Thursday I tried the wi-fi connection at my favorite coffee house.
Yesterday I tried the wi-fi connection at Borders.
Everything else on the computer (Word, Excel, Notepad) works just fine. I click to open files, they open quickly.
However, it is taking a LONG time for the Internet to open up.
Once it opens and I click on RoboForm Pro to go to a certain site, or click on a site in my "Favorites," or type the URL on my own, it's hit or miss. Sometimes I go straight to the site, it enters my password, and then I have trouble getting anywhere after that.
Like right before I started typing this message, it let me into the WF, I clicked on this forum, and it let me in, but when I clicked on the "Search" feature to try and look up and see if anyone was having similar computer problems, the little symbol kept spinning for a long time and it never opened the search box.
I opened a new tab in Firefox and typed another URL into the browser and it just chugged away with a totally white screen and never took me to that site. I sat back and watched it and timed it, thinking surely it wasn't really taking that long. I gave up after five minutes of no progress.
When this first started happening Thursday, I thought maybe I was choosing to go to sites that just happened to be down for maintenance or something.
I just flipped back over to my other tab to see if there was any progress. I typed that URL into the other tab at 10:11 p.m. and it is now 10:21 p.m. The screen is still totally white. It has the URL in the browser box and I typed it correctly. Their avatar even appears, but the site won't load.
At first, I thought it was my computer, so here is what I have done several times in the last few days, but it didn't help:
* Emptied recycle folder
* Ran Disk Clean Up
* Ran C-Cleaner
* Ran Malwarebytes
* Ran Avast
* Ran Smart Defrag
I've shut down and rebooted several times each day.
Each time, when I get back online, the first web site in the first tab that I pull up seems to work OK. But when I open a new tab, problems begin.
Any ideas about what I might try?
Thanks!
Jill the Techie-Tard
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