Slow ie9 on windows 7

IE 9 on Windows 7 all of a sudden became very slow. Tried Microsoft Fix it, disable add-ons, reset all settings, uninstalled and re-installed IE 9, tried going back to IE8, and tried to perform a clean startup disabling both the service items and the startup items.

IE9 still slow and doesn't load websites. Google Chrome and Firefox work fine so its not my internet connection. Any ideas?

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. However our website which has a pretty heavy DOM is incredibly sluggish to the point of being unusable. Example: clicking to select a row takes 10 seconds until it is highlighted and its check-box is checked. Only IE9 suffers from this. But not in its own IE9 mode.

What could possibly unique about specific machines to cause super sluggishness? What could cause these machines to suffer more than others? When the display area gets smaller, responsiveness increases. This happens when the browser window itself is made smaller or when dragged partly outside the screen boundaries. I discovered the explanation.

The real cause was answered in another stack overflow article. In short, our page contains a lot of rounded corners i. And there is a bug in IE9 that causes the rendering engine to choke on this. Once this styling was removed, everything was speedy again! IE8 does not support border-radius so it didn't fall into this issue. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. IE9 on Windows 7 slow excessive rendering Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 2 months ago. Active 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed times. He used Internet Explorer 9.

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