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One of my clients recently got a new laptop - I set it up and everything was working well.

Since then he has started to have a issue with Internet Explorer 8; when it first starts up, it takes a minute to load the first page, and then all others open fine.

During this minute he can open and close tabs, but all pages take a long time to load until the first one has completed loading.

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this, and any possible solutions?

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  • Have any add-ins or activex been installed?
    – Col
    Sep 17, 2009 at 9:55
  • I will double check, but i doubt it
    – Lloyd Sparkes
    Sep 17, 2009 at 9:58

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This is usually caused by IE's Tools -> Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> "Automatically detect settings" being checked. For some reason, figuring out what proxy to use on the network takes forever. Clear the checkbox, and if you have a proxy, type it in below. Otherwise leave the rest of the box unchecked and blank as well. That should get your first page coming up very fast.

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  • I think this will fix the problem, just waiting for client to get out of a meeting to test.
    – Lloyd Sparkes
    Sep 17, 2009 at 10:54
  • this could definitely be the reason. However I don't think this is enabled by default in IE?
    – OrangeRind
    Sep 17, 2009 at 16:06
  • just checked IE8 on another machine and that has it ticked by default.
    – Lloyd Sparkes
    Sep 17, 2009 at 21:08
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I've had this problem for years and finally fixed it:

In the browser window go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > LAN settings. Untick the Automatically detect settings box.

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  • How is this answer different from the one posted a year earlier?
    – JoshP
    Dec 5, 2012 at 15:24

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