IE8 first page takes ages to load, but then all others load fine

One of my clients recently got a new laptop - I set it up and everything was working well.

Since then he has started to have a issue with Internet Explorer 8; when it first starts up, it takes a minute to load the first page, and then all others open fine.

During this minute he can open and close tabs, but all pages take a long time to load until the first one has completed loading.

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this, and any possible solutions?

Lloyd Sparkes

Posted 2009-09-17T09:19:53.990

Reputation: 279

Have any add-ins or activex been installed? – Col – 2009-09-17T09:55:59.750

I will double check, but i doubt it – Lloyd Sparkes – 2009-09-17T09:58:46.000

Answers

This is usually caused by IE's Tools -> Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> "Automatically detect settings" being checked. For some reason, figuring out what proxy to use on the network takes forever. Clear the checkbox, and if you have a proxy, type it in below. Otherwise leave the rest of the box unchecked and blank as well. That should get your first page coming up very fast.

Andrew Arnott

Posted 2009-09-17T09:19:53.990

Reputation: 1 151

I think this will fix the problem, just waiting for client to get out of a meeting to test. – Lloyd Sparkes – 2009-09-17T10:54:34.983

this could definitely be the reason. However I don't think this is enabled by default in IE? – OrangeRind – 2009-09-17T16:06:46.543

just checked IE8 on another machine and that has it ticked by default. – Lloyd Sparkes – 2009-09-17T21:08:50.973

I've had this problem for years and finally fixed it:

In the browser window go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > LAN settings. Untick the Automatically detect settings box.

adrian

Posted 2009-09-17T09:19:53.990

Reputation: 1

How is this answer different from the one posted a year earlier? – JoshP – 2012-12-05T15:24:22.937