Dear Experts
On a windows 2000 computer IE6 (6.0.2800.1106) takes a long time to load a webpage in a new window, either when starting IE or with the new window command or when opening a link in a new window.
This is user dependent. The local admin has the problem, but not the domain admin account (other users were not tested).
What happens is that the window appears but is unresponsive for about 92 seconds. I.e. a new empty window will open and show "about:blank" in the address bar but I can not select that text in the address bar or close or minimize the window. I can bring a window from another application to the front overlapping or hiding the IE window. And when I close the front window the IE window is not completely redrawn, only the title bar and the scroll bar on the left side. I can also click on the IE's windows button in the taks bar when it's not the front window. This dactivates the current front window but the IE window is not brought to the front until after the 90 seconds.
Also when I move the curser over the window edge it doesn't change to the special move window edge cursor (double headed arrow). What's more, the icon in the upper right corner doen't move.
If I set the home page to something like
https://xxx.yyy.zz the security alert because of a problem with the sites certificate pops up almost imediately but does not respond to clicks or keyboard input until the 90 seconds are over.
In taks manager the computer is 99% idle during this time. Other processes and applications behave normally. Sysinternals process explorer didn't show anything suspicious.
To me it seems like some sort of time out problem but that is just a guess (and not even an educated one at that). But I have no idea how I can test this.
What would you suggest, I try next?
thanks in advance
Roger
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