VMWare Fusion - Web browsing suddenly gets extremely slow
I am running an XP SP3 guest. Until yesterday, internet browsing was at "normal" speeds. But then it suddenly slowed to a very, very slow crawl. This occurs for both Firefox and Internet Explorer 6 which are installed in the VM.
Checking Task Manager for either FF or IE6 shows that they both are "eating the machine" -- that is, each of them stays in excess of 85% of CPU while running.
Ping times to various servers are normal. But both browsers execute so slowly as to be unusable. Many minutes to load any page. Most websites time out before loading anything.
Obviously, something has changed, but I don't know of any changes that I made that could affect Internet bandwidth.
Checking Task Manager for either FF or IE6 shows that they both are "eating the machine" -- that is, each of them stays in excess of 85% of CPU while running.
Ping times to various servers are normal. But both browsers execute so slowly as to be unusable. Many minutes to load any page. Most websites time out before loading anything.
Obviously, something has changed, but I don't know of any changes that I made that could affect Internet bandwidth.
rindi
Have you by any chance installed the new search option via the m$ updates? If yes I'd either uninstall this or disable the services. Another thing that I've seen causing similar issues is the "Live" stuff which also can be installed through windoze updates.
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I do not believe that any "new search option" has been installed. Do you have the KB number?
ASKER
The odd thing is that everything except browsers runs normally, including other Internet functions, such as ping. And both IE6 and Firefox are affected. So it is an odd "browsers only" issue.
As I was writing my last comment, I remembered that I also have Safari for Windows installed in the VM guest. So I fired that up, and it is running at normal speeds. This oddity should shed light on the issue.
In VM:
As I was writing my last comment, I remembered that I also have Safari for Windows installed in the VM guest. So I fired that up, and it is running at normal speeds. This oddity should shed light on the issue.
In VM:
- IE6 - many minutes to load a page
- FF - many minutes to load a page
- Safari for Windows - works normally, sub-second page loads
I don't know the KB, but if you look under add remove software with updates checked, you should find it under "windows search" or something similar.
ASKER
Well, I am currently unable to do anything in the VM, as the mouse stopped working. I can work in the VM via the keyboard, but for some things, like accessing VMWare Tools, you must have the mouse. I am going to replace the VM with a backup I made a little while ago.
Maybe you should check on the VMware site, there might be an update for your version there.
ASKER
Just updated to the latest version yesterday, hoping it would help. It did not.
The mouse issue -- fixed that by reverting to a backup of the VM.
The FF and IE6 issue remains.
The mouse issue -- fixed that by reverting to a backup of the VM.
The FF and IE6 issue remains.
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