Since I seem to be on a troubleshooting post streak at the moment, here is another issue for reference.
I’m running a Windows 7 (x64) system, 8 GB system RAM, a fast (but not blazing) standard HDD. Firefox and Chrome are my preferred browsers but I still have Internet Explorer (11) set as my default system browser.
When I do need IE and try to launch it, it can take over 30 seconds to launch…or longer.
It has been a nuisance but since I don’t use IE every day, I haven’t dwelt on it much.
Yesterday I did some Googling on the issue and found a number of links for forums that were addressing a similar problem.
The basic troubleshooting with this type of problem is as follows:
- Launch IE with Add-ons disabled by typing “iexplore.exe" -extoff” in the Run field from the start-menu.
- IE launched super fast. Suggesting that an Add-on was causing the delayed launch.
- Drop into the “manage add-ons” option in IE.
- Select and disable an add-on that may be questionable, save and relaunch IE to test.
- If it didn’t help, re-enable the add-on and move on and disable the next.
- Repeat until the offender is found.
In my case it turned out to be the IE add-on for Fiddler.
Once disabled, IE launches very fast again.
I’ve left it disabled (as I have also done for the Add-on in Firefox) and will enable it “on-demand” when I have a specific need for it in IE.
Just posting in case others have this issue.
Cheers,
Claus V.
4 comments:
Amazing how problematic one add-on can be...more so when you have many add-ons and need to find the troublemaker.
In Manage Add-ons I thought there was a column which showed load time. Or did the fiddler one not register there?
@WTB1234 - You are correct. There is a column in the IE Add-ons pane that does display add-on load-time data. Unfortunately, no data values were provided, which I did find odd.
I've gone back and re-enabled/disabled the Fiddler add-on and still never got it to register load times despite multiple relaunches.
Not sure why the load-times are not registering. There may be another source I could capture that data from but for now I'm not too worried about it.
When I need to use Fiddler in IE, I'll just re-enable it again at that time. Not that big a deal.
Cheers!
--Claus V.
For me the fix was removing the %homedrive%%homepath% in the shortcut for Internet Explorer in "Start in:"
After that, IE opens very fast.
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