opening up the internet via explorer or mozilla is very slow when the computer has been idle overnight.?

Question

What can i do to increase the speed? Once i've been able to open my homepage then the computer and internet works fine, i am using bt home hub

Answer 1

As well as the defrag and clean-up, make sure you haven't got a mountain of "temporary internet files" which should be deleted every day anyway, and then, make sure you haven't got something like AVG set to do an automatic scan each morning. My PC started to go slow and nothing showed up on the task bar (click on the clock!) but the light was on all the morning - and then just by chance I spotted a quick flash on the screen which told me that the scan was finished - and when I checked, I'd inadvertently switched it to self-scan instead of self up-date! - so it's well worth checking to see if you've got something like that going on underneath it all without you realising it.

Answer 2

Keeping the PC idle sometimes sends the ISP server a small ping that this PC is not in use and so that the ISP server can redirect network priority to more active user. simply type "ipconfig" on start meny > run. or PING the server with the gateway.

Or you can just restart the PC.

Also , you can try system mechanic to defrag the ram before you use the Mozill or Firefox.

try using OPERA.

Answer 3

check any application that automaticaly running while computer idle and also the power management that could put the harddrive into a sleep mode while idle.

if you using winXP:
you can add more ram or set the virtual memory from
- right click on my computer and choose properties
- click on tab advanced
- under performance click on settings
- click on tab advanced
- under virtual memory click on settings

you can set the recomended value (or put maximum value available) or system managed size (let the windows set for you)

then again, defrag your drive, deleting temp files, clean up your browser cache and history files will also help to improve your computer performance

Answer 4

When leaving the comp on ovanight the CPU will start using unnecessary CPU power and the only way iv found to fix it is by turning it off at night or just restarting it.
Old CPU's have this problem.

Answer 5

you think you keep the computer idle, but sometimes some anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam softwares are still running, especially the anti virus software, they may do a througout scan against your whole harddisk, this may use up your memory. so the computer need to do more swapping between the memory and the harddisk. restarting your computer will solve the problem.

Answer 6

shop IE on your workstation and shop directly to date yet you do no longer ought to apply it. only set Firefox as your usual browser. in case you attempt to take IE off your workstation there's a mind-blowing possibility your workstation would possibly no longer artwork. additionally you could run each and all of the browsers you like. i could provide most of the others like Opera a try with the aid of fact it does not harm to study a thank you to run different utility. I run Firefox ninety 5% of the time and that i additionally use Thunderbird e mail. i like each and all of the upload ons which are available in for the two classes. i take advantage of Outlook show with MailWasherPro for my junk e mail bills. good success and don't difficulty approximately having the two IE and the Fox.

Answer 7

You could try restart on your computer so that all the components are in the right place again. and run a full system scan as well. good luck

Answer 8

when you computer is ideal, other processes such as antivirus will take over etc.

i would recomend you use a firewall, defrag your hard disk, isp will give pirioty traffic to people activly using them.

if you restart your machine you should be fine

Answer 9

Try Defragmentation and Reboot. If this does not help with speed, you could be getting hacked for personal information.