>Let me start a fresh post here to see if anyone besides two of us have observed or can explain this:
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>Under Win98v2,IE5.01 final beta,450 machine,v.90 modem,ISP connected, but no activity observed in the connection icon.
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>I open up IE to About:Blank, and it often takes at least 15 seconds before anything at all occurs - and no machine activity during this time at all. I can go about other business as usual, nothing else is hung up. If I go to Task Manager, it shows 'not responding' for IE - but in fact, it will open up eventually, after 15 or 20 seconds.
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>This began after downloading and installing various add-ons and critical updates from the MS site last week, so it's related. But what on earth could cause an empty hang like that? Baffled...
I have seen this on my machine when it tried to do something with a .wav. When the site tried to play the wav file my I.E. suddenly quit. I took of the option to play the wav and it has worked ever since. So yours could be related to something that the site is trying to load but unsuccessfully.
Bret Hobbs
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