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.

Thanks, Spaceman. So you reckon all the XP glitches have been dealt with? I'll check with her system is.

Spaceman,

Not sure, but as I say we are looking at the HP at the mo, so should be able to get things ticking over better when that is complete,

Ian

TOK

A good instalation of XP Pro is at least as good as Win 2K. There is nothing wrong with W2K but support will eventually cease ans SP2 makes XP a more secure system.

She should make sure that she goes for XP Pro as opposed to home and install SP2 before she connects to the internet.

Both W2K and XP benefit from clean instalations but this means you have to reinstal all programs.

TOK, I would just say that XP Pro (as Optimist mentions above) is now pretty stable and I am in the process of moving to it. I am sure there are still some glitches but I am sure there are some in ME too.

Ian ... Thanks. I had started to compare pages to see what services / files were common to slow pages. I wondered about Java, but I noticed it ran on some other pages which did not have a high CPU impact.

Anyway, I'm now 'out of my depth'. I will keep an eye on the homepage, and hope that you can improve this aspect. As I mentioned earlier, now I understand the source of my 'CPU hit', I can avoid it by just avoiding the am homepage.

Regards, D.

I have got an old Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows ME and when I switched it on this morning the keyboard doesn't work (the touchpad mouse does). I tried rebooting and presing F2 to enter set up but it won't recognise that either. When I plug in my cordless logitech keyboard that works okay, so I am guessing this keyboard problem is a serious hardware failure, but any other pointers to something that may have been changed in its set up?

Thanks

Can't think it would be a setup option Limpy. Replacement keyboards are advertised on Ebay and they are generally not difficult to fit once you've worked out how, although you might need the maintenance manual to do that. However they are fairly expensive and there is no guarantee that the fault is in the keyboard rather than the motherboard.