SillyDog701

[richard mitnick]

I have two aging PIII's in my digiteria. They have about 1 gig processor and 512 megs of DRAM. Each is running Win XP SP2. Each has plenty of room in gigs open on the HDD.

On one machine, I installed the IE8 beta. It slowed my machine to a crawl.

One must remember that IE is part of the Windows OS. When one launches IE, one is calling up a collection of files, ,dll's, etc., present and also involved in other processes.

So, IE is like no other "program". Everything one does can be affected by IE.

This machine absolutely slowed to a crawl. Its most important work now is to process data for BOINC projects and WCG projects. It also serves as a secondary repository for my 41.5 gigs of music, and I do use it to play music.

If anyone else has any experience with IE8, we would all like to know about it.

>>RSM

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[Fulvio]

Richard,
so IE8 is very different from, let's say IE7? Anyway, isn't IE8 at the beta1 stage?

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[richard mitnick]

No, IE8 will be in a direct line of succession from IE7, most of the code will be the same.

The point is that IE is and always has been a calling together of files from all over the operating system, so IE always affects the whole computer.

To whit, while I never use IE on the computer in question, syill it had loads of Temporary Internet files, in fact, many from SillyDog.

But as software marches on, and takes advantage of advances in hardware resources, the ability of an older machine is diminished relative to the new software.

>>RSM

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[Fulvio]

Sorry, I did not quite read what you said about the old processor. But, still, 1 Gig is not so bad.
My old computer with less robust processor is staying with 98SE.
However, I was a bit confused about your statement about your system slowing to a crawl.
Which version IE did it have before?

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[richard mitnick]

It has IE7, and with that, it runs fine.

I had an immediate return of the speediness of the machine when I rolled back to IE7.

>>RSM

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