Windows 8 / Internet Explorer 10 Issues

[scj6771]

It seems that IE 10 (Windows 8) will not load (or takes anywhere from 5 to 25 min to load) any web page, Firefox and Chrome on same machine run fine.

I fired up my laptop which is also Windows 8 with IE 10 and the same thing happens, I tried the following on my laptop:

1. Uninstalled Firefox and Chrome rebooted and tried IE 10
2. Uninstalled and reinstalled IE 10
3. Uninstalled Flash
4. Disabled Flash using the MMC (flash is embedded inside IE 10)
5. Ran IE 10 without add-ons (iexplore.exe -extoff)
6. Updated NIC drivers
7. Reset TCPIP stack
8. Reset IE in “Internet Options”
9. Disabled all startup items and all non-Microsoft services
10. “Enabled Enhanced Protected Mode” within “Internet Options” – “Advanced”
11. Disabled and enabled “Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering” within “Internet Options” – “Advanced”
12. Booted into “Safe Mode” with networking and tested
13. Disabled Windows Defender
14. Changed speed and duplex on NIC

None of these worked, I am leaning toward a possible AD (2003 SBS) policy not compatible with either Windows 8 or IE 10? (although my laptop is not part of that domain and still has the issue) or perhaps a router or switch issue.

I can also access network resources without a problem, this is only an IE 10 issue.

Both my laptop and the “problem” laptop have no issues with IE 10 outside of that network.

 

[corkyg]

I find no such problems with IE10 in two drives of Win 8 using the Start8 interface. Seems to me to be a local issue relating to your network.

 

[scj6771]

I find no such problems with IE10 in two drives of Win 8 using the Start8 interface. Seems to me to be a local issue relating to your network.

That's kind of what I'm saying, I have no problem with IE 10 outside of that network, but at the same time, I've never seen an issue like this before.

 

[mechBgon]

If one of the computers isn't joined to the domain, then the domain's policies shouldn't be the culprit.

1. Do you have any internal Web sites within the domain, and do they come up OK?

2. Do computers have unrestricted outbound connections via a router, or do you have something else (security appliance, proxy server, etc)?


Maybe paste the output from ipconfig /all if you're comfortable with sharing that info.

 

[scj6771]

1. Do you have any internal Web sites within the domain, and do they come up OK?

2. Do computers have unrestricted outbound connections via a router, or do you have something else (security appliance, proxy server, etc)?

Interesting, I will look into the internal web site option, as for the hardware, there is a Cisco 871 router/security device involved.

 

[scj6771]

Just wanted to update this with what I found to be the answer, if a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine was attached to our network this was the only way to solve this issue.

Disable RSS, Autotuning, and Taskoffload using the following NETSH commands:

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled

 

[Chiefcrowe]

What exactly do those commands do?

Just wanted to update this with what I found to be the answer, if a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine was attached to our network this was the only way to solve this issue.

Disable RSS, Autotuning, and Taskoffload using the following NETSH commands:

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled