Recaro

When I load up a web site, everything loads up but for 10 secs (or so) I cannot do anything. Its like its frozen. Then its seems to be fine, until I click a link or something. When its frozen, if I click on something on the page, it will catch up on itself.

Its only the internet that is frozen, I can click on anything outside of IE (ie, the start bar, toolbar,etc)

Anyone know what this is? Or how to fix it?

They other weird thing is that if i type in a website in the address bar that is wrong, instead of getting a "page unavailable" display, I get a lycos search engine. Thought that I must have some sort of spyware on it but I've run Ad-aware and Spybot and they find nothing. I found a folder called "lycos" in windows explorer and deleted. But its still the same.

Its really annoying. Tried to install IE 6 but it tells me that a previous version is needing a restart and cannot install. Which if I reboot the machine makes no difference.

lightning101

Sounds like you internet cache is full - or has a problem.

e.g has to empty space, before it can download new data.

Try going into c/panel - internet options - then delete all temporary files.

Restart machine - if it still does it - would probably be adware that is being blocked causing the delay.

Recaro

tried deleting the temp files, but still no luck.

Must be ware that is being blocked, but how do I get rid of it??