I’m on IE11 now and the difference is that everything is quicker. There is a “jump” when ads load but it happens so quickly that I have no time to move the mouse pointer before it has happened. I see no indication in the message area at the bottom of the browser window of “crap” loading in the background but that may be due to different ways to hide/display what happens. No lockups this far.
Alan, maybe I’ll try Adblock Plus or one of the Firefox addons (if Adblock Plus isn’t one of them).
About cleaners, well, I’m 99% certain that my computer is clean. I mentioned using Ghost Images as system backup. During the installation, several Images were created, enabling me to roll back the system if a subsequent program installation or update should go wrong. When creating the Images, the computer has never been connected to the internet (with the single exception of activating Windows 7) and it is the same status today regarding the most recent Image. How can that be? Well, prior to installing the monthly batch of updates to Windows, Office and any other program update, I download them to the computer (to the data partition). Next, I disconnect from the internet, restore the Image from last month (affecting the system partition only), install the updates, do a cleanup and create a new Image. The procedure has been the same since “day one” and the computer is as clean today as it was 5-6 years ago when I built it.
The Images do not include Microsoft Security Essentials or Firefox and Thunderbird. After the new Image has been created, those programs are installed. FF and TB are set to use the profile on the data partition, not affected by the procedure of restroring/creating Images. This means that there is a slight possibility (1%) that anything in there is the culprit but I don’t think so.
When I finally reconnect to the internet, Windows 7 configures the connection and offers to set up a home network and just like the first time 5-6 years ago, I don’t network the computer.
This procedure may seem cumbersome and yes, it takes an hour or so once each month but it’s worth it, knowing that the system is clean and also, if disaster strikes (hit by a virus or HDD/SSD-failure or whatever) … :applause: … the system is back up running within minutes (unless it requires a trip to the shop for a new HDD/SSD).
I have a friend who is a web designer and he has joined the “hate Internet Explorer mob”. He optimizes for Firefox and Chrome but not Internet Explorer or Edge. Maybe it’s the opposite for the designer of this forum? Maybe it’s worth asking about “browser optimization”?
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