I recently got IE 8 as an update and ever since Ccleaner takes ages to do its stuff.

It used to run in about 5-8 seconds but now it takes over 50 seconds.

I am using it the same now as i was before, timewise, and about the same amount of internet usage.

Is there anything in IE 8 that takes longer to clean ?

Hi micky, and welcome to Piriform.

I don't use IE8, or 7 for that matter, and don't have a definitive answer for you, but a couple of members on here found their entire PC seriously slowed right down after updating to IE8, and the problem went away after reverting to IE7.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=22274 (Posts 1 and 6)

Just thought I'd mention that.

But the wife has IE 8 on her laptop and the same latest version of Ccleaner and hers is fine.

She is running XP but i am running Vista.

Any more ideas ????

Nope, sorry. Maybe the IE8 users on here will have some idea, but you can get the reason I believe simply by googling.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cli...mp;oq=&aqi=

IE8 is causing various slowdown problems all over the internet, and apparently Microsoft are aware of this. If it was my PC I wouldn't even attempt to find another reason for your problem, I would instantly revert to IE7 until IE8 is sorted by MS.

There's also been this page here to look at

http://windowsfixup.com/2009/03/speeding-u...net-explorer-8/

So far I have been one of the lucky ones, no problem with IE8 although I use Opera anyway.

I've got Windows Vista Home Premium and Internet Explorer 8 and CCleaner 2.20.920.

Usually I use Firefox, but I visited 4 Webpages and then ran CCleaner, it took "1.941 Sek" to clean the PC for 1,67 MB in Gutmann-mode - I'll use IE a bit more and report my results.

Nice link hazel. Bookmarked.

very nice link. FF over any browser any day though