Browsing in Vista slow

[Animal Chin]

I've just setup a new PC with Vista Ultimate. I haven't changed much on the preinstalled software except shutting down a few unrequired services.

I have noticed that when I'm browsing sites in IE that it takes several seconds just to get any response after clicking on a link. Where should I start looking for a solution?

I have McAfee security pre-installed and I'm thinking it might be that causing the slow-down, as I've seen it do the same on XP machines.

Specs: AMD 5000+, 2GB Ram, 256MB radeon video, SATA drive.



Any advice?





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[Animal Chin]

Have found this solution:

1. Click Start and type CMD.
   
2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to open the command Prompt with Administrative rights.
   
3. At the prompt in the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
   

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

Remember to reboot in order for the setting to take effect.

It seems that disabling the autotuning feature will speed up threaded network downloads, mostly used with all sorts of downloading agents and per-to-peer networking, along with great improvement with file copying on your network.

BTW, it also seems that disabling the autotuning of TCP can also fix other Vista-specific issues related to slow file transfer and even Outlook 2007 – to Exchange connections.


I'll give it a shot tonight and report back.

[Animal Chin]

Worked perfectly. No problems found so far.