problem with my notebook pls anybody help

[HelenHorbik]

Hello,
I am having trouble with my Internet explorer.It is doing some very odd things.Sometimes it will completely close the page i am visiting for no reason or it will be very slow loading pages and when i say slow i mean very very very slow for eg i tried to google something and after 10 minutes of the page trying to load i gave up.I thought that it was perhaps the topic i was searching so i tried putting in random things to see if that made any difference but it didn't.Another problem i had was when i was on a forum and clicked on a link and nothing happened i tried to open a new tab and that wouldn't work either and it would let me access any options that are in my tools menu.i had to restart my computer.Just to let you know i have high speed Internet connection.Thanks in advance to anyone that helps me with this problem.

[Floyd]

Heres one thing: If you have windows, go to start..run, then type in taskmgr. That will bring up a Windows Task Manager window.
Click on the performance tab to see if something is hogging up your cpu.
You can use this same window to see what your computer is doing now; you might have too many processes running. You can modify your startup instructions so that windows doesn't start up a lot of system hogs when you boot up your computer.

If you are able to get online and dl something, the next things you want to do are to do a spyware scan and a virus scan. Your system may even be hijacked and the browser is busy doing something you are unaware of. These remedies take some time to dl and run, but might be necessary/worthwhile to restore your system to a more useful state. I would recommend these(or similar) even if you already use protection.

AdAware: http://lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Housecall from Trend Micro: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

There is always the possibility that your browser (IE6 or whatever) is corrupted or has settings that are slowing it down.
There are dozens of other things that can slow it down. Good luck.