jficquette, Thanks for the tip to turn the phishing filter option off. My IE 7 has worked great since then.
i just discovered that if i turn off auotomatic detect settings in my lan settings section,then everything has speeded right up.not sure if anything will work proper but at least its fast again.
With this turning off, is it better than IE6? Still on IE6 as do not want to run into any problems. TIA