XP Hangs / Locks up

foreright · 22 Sep 2009 at 20:04

Since I have had my PC rebuilt I suffer from lock ups.
I had a pentium system with 2 gig ram. I had a power surge and a repair shop rebuilt my PC with an Asus MB, AMD CPU and 4Gig Ram.
The system works fine but. When I close a session on internet for example, after the browser has closed there is 15 secs of HD activity (hour glass indication, I assume it is HD and not Ram).
If I am impatient and try to open another application then the PC just locks up and I am unable to clear - even with task manager.
I have never had a problem in the past, even with lower spec PC's.
Can anyone tell me why the HD is slow to rest after each session and what I can do. I am fed up with manual re-boots.
PS. It has only also happened since I have had IE8 installed on this new PC

Amnesia · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:05

take it back to the shop

5abr3 · 22 Sep 2009 at 23:55

Either roll back to a previous IE version and see what it does then or take it back!

Amnesia · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:37

i missed the 'PS. It has only also happened since I have had IE8 installed on this new PC ' bit

i could just say ie8 is crap and to introduce your pc to firefox but its a bit unfair as that isnt normal behaviour for ie8........but take ur pc back anyway as there maybe an underlying problem elsewhere and its best to get it checked by them whilst under warranty.

Mattus · 23 Sep 2009 at 01:44

Perhaps IE8 is set to clear your browsing history on close? That might cause a delay, though 15 seconds is quite a while.

Coldzero · 23 Sep 2009 at 07:52

Might be worth trying a defrag and chkdsk.

feranm_ie8team · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:58

Hey, this is Feran with the IE Outreach Team. I would suggest managing your add-ons or even running IE with add-ons disabled. To do this go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Internet Explorer (No Add-ons) and let me know if that helps. Or in IE you can go to tools ->manage add-ons and try manually disabling add-ons (such as those with more than .2 second load time).

foreright · 26 Sep 2009 at 19:55

Mattus said:
Perhaps IE8 is set to clear your browsing history on close? That might cause a delay, though 15 seconds is quite a while.

That is exactly my problem.
Can someone tell me how to uncheck this. All I can find is Tools / Int options / Advanced / Security / empty temp in files when browser is closed. My one is unchecked but history is erased on exit.
Any ideas please.