I've been struggling with slow internet for some time, and it has nothing to do with my ISP speed, which is high speed fiber. I have assumed it was a problem in the registry, and have tried multiple registry cleaners and fixers for weeks. Nothing improved things.

Today I pretty much solved the problem. I uninstalled Google Chrome. I suspected the program for a while, since it's unbelievably intrusive, reading emails and God knows what else. So I got rid of it, went back to Firefox, and the improvement is dramatic.

If I open Espn's page, which is one of the more busy, it takes me about 5 or 6 seconds to open enough to browse, maybe 15 seconds for it to totally open all of it's little flash windows. This might not sound ideal, but before I dumped Google, it would take about 45 seconds to open this page.

Something to consider if you have problems opening your pages.

My computer went through a phase where it would freeze, restart on its own, or flash the lovely blue screen with a surplus of errors.  I looked long and hard for solutions online, searching through all this mumbo-jumbo with words I couldn't understand and everything telling me to re-install Windows.  

Then one day I see that Google Chrome, my primary browser, allowed you to play Angry Birds.  So I tried to install it but my browser wasn't updated, so when I tried to update it I found that...it wouldn't.  It wouldn't respond at all.  So I uninstalled, re-installed, played Angry Birds, and the computer hasn't had any of these issues since.  

I quit Firefox for Chrome when it was first released since it ran faster and had a more appealing look IMO.  I still use Chrome and like it for the most part, though there are some technical issues that still arise from time to time.

I am thinking of seeing if Chrome will install with fewer active components. One thing that surprised me, when I would open Task Manager, I would see multiple things open for Google. I don't know what all those things were doing, but I am guessing several were part of their search engine.

When artificial intelligence finally comes into the world, I predict it will not be so much be design as by evolution, and I predict it will evolve out of search engines. Those programs are continuously finding ways to harvest information.

That's one task for each page/tab you have open.  

That's why Google Chrome runs faster than Firefox.  Chrome is threaded, Firefox is not.

I use Chrome.  It has problems sometimes with Flash but other than that it works well enough -- better than IE -- that's for sure.  

I use Firefox as a second browser because on some sites I need more than one username to access my account.  Chrome remembers one username password, Firefox the other.

That does explain the task manager point. I liked Chrome, was reluctant to uninstall, especially with all the favorites I had saved there. But things are moving multiple times faster now. I can't explain why, I'm not a computer guy. Maybe I'll reinstall and see what happens.

I use both Firefox and Chrome. What bothers me most is when something continuously goes boinkers. You know, like you reach for a pen and it doesn't write... then another and another in succession and none write... And...

You have a gazillion pens in your drawer!!!

That kind of thing drives me wild.

Sandra