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All: I wish I knew what had been removed, particulary in view of Kayak's tantalising reference . . .

On edit: and even that has now been removed . . . history is being rewritten before my eyes -- or shouldn't I mention eyes?

Derek, the wonders of editing ;-) you should have a PM !!

Looks like the eyes had it then.

Chocolat -- ho ho :)

Tim, you have mail -- but your MAM PM is disabled . . .

Thanks for all your help 7thfloor.It was a pain ringin comdirect for every trade!

SAW

I'm very dissapointed in comdirect. There has been a couple of issues I've taken up with them and their attitude has been less than helpful. The time it's taking them to sort out the SP2 problem is plain daft.

By the way, still on the subject of slow PCs, the guys on this thread pointed me towards Spybot & Adaware plus a firewall (a software one in my case from Zonealarm). They are excellent at keeping Spyware from slowing down your machine.

>> MoneyAM Homepage Consuming High CPU Resources

Spaceman, thanks for reply and suggestion that it's probably the ads.

Has this been discussed before. I recall ads being topical for a while, but I don't recall CPU loading coming up as an issue.

I had a look at ADVFN homepage. It is quite busy, and has quite a few 'flashing' ads, but doesn't use any more CPU than any other normal page. I note am homepage has scrolling blocks on it, which appears to be the only obvious difference.

I've now changed my browser default homepage away from am, so I don't get the CPU hit everytime I open a new browser. I suppose that 'fixes it' for me.

But I'm still surprised that this is how am intend it to be and I still wonder if there is something wrong somewhere, either my PC('s) or the homepage.

D.

Dieng,

Rest assured this is not how we intend things to to be, we have been working recently to make the homepage faster, but I am interested that it seems to consume CPU resources.

I will forward your message to our tech guys, and see if they can offer you any explanation.

Thanks

Ian

IanT ... Thankyou. Look forward to their views.

My original description of my problem is back in post 2272. I suggest you pass them both 2272 & 2305, to fully describe my experience.

Regards, D.

Dieng, its a touchy subject !

We all know the reasons for ads and most of us accept them as a fact of life, but depending upon the type of ads they can have a pretty major affect on your machine response.

It is possible to block adverts with add on software.

By the way there is a big difference between flashing ads and flash ads !

My sister-in-law has been offered an upgrade by the guy who came out to repair her PC. She's running ME but he has offered her XP. In view of all the negative comments re XP is it worthwhile or should she go for 2000?

Spaceman ... I recall the 'ads' discussions, and I also understand and accept the commercial requirements for ads. No problem there for me.

However, its only recently that I noticed the apparent CPU hit from the homepage. Now that Ian has picked it up, I'll see if they find anything unusual.

Re. ads blocking, I use Norton Firewall 2003, with ads blocking on. Saying that, I recall I used to get empty 'ad locations' on the am homepage, but now I don't. Maybe my blocker is malfunctioning, or maybe new 'ads design' has circumvented it. I'll have to have a look.

Regards, D.

EDIT ; My ads blocking is working ok. Just had a look at the homepage on a PC without 'ads blocking', and there's extra ads showing which I don't get on my 'blocked' PC's.

Dieng,

I have spoken to JT about this, and he thinks it is something to do with scrolling java on the front page, we are in the process of looking at the front page anyway, so hopefully we will be able to sort this out pretty soon.

Ian

IanT, was the GNI ad on the front page? I thing that was a bit of a hog as well??

TOK, ***IF*** her PC is up to it I would probably go for XP SP2 now.