Try Mozilla cause IE blows. My dail up is the slowest west of the Mississippi and I'm having no problems with the background and viewing posts. Speed is the same as well.
im on dial up & using dreaded AOL... & im seriously having no "download" or "loading" problems. yeah its not fast, but everything loads up within a minute
like i said earlier.... have you guys deleted your temporary internet files latey? emptied your cache files? checked & deleted spyware/adware? those things could be causing your computer to run really slow.
but i am using Mozilla Firefox web browser (not IE) & I am having zero problems. www.mozilla.org
Internet Explorer has too many security flaws/issues that scare the crap outta me. I suggest if you do shopping on Internet Explorer or use your credit card for anything, I'd download a personal firewall somewhere off the internet. I'm not sayin switch to Firefox cause I like it, but the Internet Explorer is building a poor reputation. Just do a google search on "Microsoft Internet Explorer Bad" & i'm sure youll find articles upon articles.
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