Browser problem on Vista

I hate vista. after I’ve been on a few web pages my browsers seem to just stop loading and only works again after a restart.
Utorrent still works and msn.
Happens with Safari, IE, FF, Chrome and Opera.
Any ideas??????

Thanks
Matt

Have you opened the task manager and looked to see if a process is hung? Try minimizing the browsers when they hang and see if there is a pop-up security warning message hidden somewhere on your screen that may be holding things up and Vista is notorious for security warnings.

check mem usage on task manger.

nope, no pop ups no hang ups

I too have noticed browser restarting... It began about 2 weeks ago. Today alone it froze while in Facebook, shut down, and restarted. Explorer v.7 with Vista.

try looking in the startup for anything you didnt have lately.

clean the temp folder,clean browser cache,delate cookies.

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Originally posted by r3rjr

I too have noticed browser restarting... It began about 2 weeks ago. Today alone it froze while in Facebook, shut down, and restarted. Explorer v.7 with Vista.

not the browser restarts i have to restart my computer! thats why its such a bastard!

how about a little thank you for people who try to help you?

sorry about that!
thanks very much am just at my wits end!

look if all else fails do a system restore.

or upgrade to xp.

you should chack and do a complete sweep for maleware and spyware,it could be a hardware issue as well.

did you upgrade your vista to sp1?

it should solve many bugs over the standard none sp1 vista.

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Originally posted by leon2006

look if all else fails do a system restore.

or upgrade to xp.

you should chack and do a complete sweep for maleware and spyware,it could be a hardware issue as well.

did you upgrade your vista to sp1?

it should solve many bugs over the standard none sp1 vista.

i looked into puttin xp on but the drivers seem to be for vista only.
just done a format 4 days ago and have scanned for everything.
got all the updates + sp1.
would i need to release/renew? can you do this in vista?

Thanks for the help(beer)

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Originally posted by *Matt*

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i looked into puttin xp on but the drivers seem to be for vista only.
just done a format 4 days ago and have scanned for everything.
got all the updates + sp1.
would i need to release/renew? can you do this in vista?

Thanks for the help(beer)

so? just download the drivers for xp.

if you bought the pc in the last 2 years the company should give you the drivers,cuse you are a customer.

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Originally posted by leon2006

...so? just download the drivers for xp.

if you bought the pc in the last 2 years the company should give you the drivers,cuse you are a customer.

there seems to be only a few for xp though

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=3425185&lc=en&dlc=de&cc=de&lang=de&tool=softwareCategory&query=dv6355ea#

would you risk it?

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Originally posted by *Matt*

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there seems to be only a few for xp though

[ Link ]

would you risk it?

hmmmm

but you cant continue working with a crash every 5 minutes.

found this
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1137467&admit=109447627+1226170007478+28353475

if you could translate i would really appreciate it!

Matt,

Before you go reformatting and loading XP, have you ran your system though MS Updates?

My ex was having the same problem with her Dell with Vista Home Premium and I ran across a question to Ask Neil in the May 2008 edition of PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com I performed this action on here machine and it worked great, Neil says it may not work on every machine but it worked on hers. This solution fixes an issue between Vista's "Auto Tuning" and some routers and network devices. Here is the procedure, I am posting it exactly as it is in the magazine so you can cut and paste.

At the Start menu type command, but don't immediately launch the command prompt. Instead right-click it and choose Run As Administrator Now type this command;

netsh interface tcp show global

If the line Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level does not say "disabled", enter this command

netsh interface tcp set global
autotuning=restricted

Better? If no change repeat the above process but use the command

netsh interface tcp set global
autotuning=disabled

If this didn't help you might as well put things back to normal by repeating the above but finishing with the command

netsh interface tcp set global
autotuning=normal

I copied the above verbatim from the magazine. I am adding this, after making the change reboot the machine and see if it's better, the magazine didn't say anything about rebooting but I didn't see any improvement on her machine until I rebooted. I've gotten into the habit of rebooting after I make changes just to be certain I am actually working with the new settings. I hope this helps, good luck.

Artie,

If this works, good find. If not, good find. I was not aware of this issue. Thanks for stepping up and sharing this. I will be adding this to my lil black book.

I have been using Vista for the past year and been using Firefox for my browser and have not had any problems.

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Originally posted by ev1l0ne

Artie,

If this works, good find. If not, good find. I was not aware of this issue. Thanks for stepping up and sharing this. I will be adding this to my lil black book.

I found this out the first Vista PC I owned. Couldn't RDP into shit without it taking ages. Killing the autotuning worked great (its best to just set it to disabled)! Vista out of the box is optimized for 2008 server, even though 2008 just came out some months ago...

I definitely think this is recommended for any Vista PC, and updates are a good idea too.

That said, I'm curious what firewalls/internet security packages are in use on this particular PC.