Hi FooZe,
Thanks for replying. The scratchiness I'm experiencing is literally noise. I know that I get that sometimes when I get "ahead" of the computer. It "scratches" until it's had chance to catch up. I get that with the first member, but there's no catching up to do. I can start fresh and still always get it.
Arrgghhh......this is so hard for me to describe. I do know (with my hubby's help) that I have tried steps 1 and 2. I'm going to try step 3 and see what happens. It will be interesting to find out.
If that gives me no clue, then I'll reprocess your message. I'll try sending again to these two people and carefully record what happens. Thanks for the observations and suggestions you have provided. I'll be back........thanks, grey
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Originally Posted by FooZe
Can you describe more exactly what scratchiness looks like? Or is this it (from the second part of your post)?
It looks as if you may have lost sight of your post and started over, only to have both attempts show up. Is that another part of the same problem you're describing?
So far this sounds like something on your computer, perhaps something running in the background (JavaScript? A virus?!  ) tying up the processor and other resources. If it happens more with some pages/sites than others, that may be because some things on those pages (pictures? ads?) require more processing and cause more of a slowdown.
If it happened to me I'd want to try all of the following: - Shut down and restart the computer.
- Scan the system for viruses and spyware.
- Find a way to access the troublesome pages from a different computer and see if the problem still shows up.
One of my e-mail providers is a "portal" site that also offers links to news stories. When I open one of their stories, there's so much computer activity while it's loading that for a minute or so I can't even scroll down to start reading the actual story. I gather the site is setting up a lot of processor-intensive ads and stuff. The strategy I've worked out is to click on "Stop" as soon as the scrollbar shows that the page is long enough to contain the story, then scroll down and see what I got.
At one commercial site where I shop pretty regularly I often get a temporary freezeup followed by a notice (from my browser, I guess) about an "unresponsive script". I used to think that meant my system just couldn't handle those scripts but I'm finding that if I click to allow the script to continue awhile, it soon finishes whatever it was doing and I get normal access to the page again. I think those particular scripts may be for the purpose of letting me view enlarged pictures of the product and other "fancy" features that actually come in handy once in a while. |