IE6 hangs for a minute or two on boot up

[jelifah]

<To the Gilligans Island Theme Song>
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

My father-in-law's Windows XP Machine, fully patched, running IE6 is acting quirky. On a fresh power on if you open IE6 and type in a web site like, the graphic intensive, www.google.com IE will sit with it's little globe spinning for a, not exagerrating, one or two minutes. Then BOOM everything starts running fine and you can surf like normal.

What's odd to me is that if I open up IE and allow it to load his default homepage of yahoo it comes up fine. In fact I can click on yahoo links and those links actually resolve. All the while the other page trying to access www.google.com just sits there.

I checked msconfig and didn't see anything crazy loading. I ran AdAware but it didn't clear the problem up.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank ye in advance

 

[furballi]

Install Firefox and retest. Could be an AV trying to update. How is the PC connected to the internet? Sounds like a firewall or ISP issue if some websites will not load.

 

[jelifah]

Good thought on checking with an install of Firefox

He is connecting via a Cable Modem through a Linksys router. And it's not just specific websites it's ANY website, for the first minute or two.

 

[furballi]

Except for YAHOO. Still think something is trying to update. Check for inbound/outbound traffic when the PC is first connected to the internet.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: furballi
Install Firefox and retest. Could be an AV trying to update. How is the PC connected to the internet? Sounds like a firewall or ISP issue if some websites will not load.

Why would it be a firewall or ISP? Firewalls don't block specific sites, and for an ISP, if some sites work, all sites will.

If some sites aren't loading, it could be a DNS problem... so either try a different DNS, or do a: ipconfig /cleardns

If your browser is hanging on loadup, could be a browser issue or spyware. Try scanning for spyware... also try resetting IE back to default (Internet Options > Security > Default Level... Internet Options > Advance > Restore Default ... might want to clear cookies and temp files too).