WW severely delays IE from opening new pages

Using a normal install of WW, when WW is NOT updating, it took, in four separate tries, 14, 19, 16, 13 seconds or on average 15.5 seconds to completely load all three web pages (www.google.com, my.yahoo.com, and a company internal). None of the 3 web pages took significantly more time to load than the other two. Google was usually the first one to finish loading.

When WW is UPDATING, it took, also in four separate tries, 79, 42, 58, 75, or on average 63.5 seconds (~ 4X) to completely load the same pages.

This is how the test was done:

  • Make sure WW is running
  • IE proxy is set to either autoproxy (using company autoproxy script), OR set it to a particular company proxy. No noticeble improvements one way or the other.
  • Quit IE and other IE using apps (e.g. Yahoo Messenger, etc)
  • Open WW window, make sure it's NOT updating
  • Click on update icon to start WW update
  • Start timer
  • Immediately click on the 3 IE shortcuts to open the web pages
  • Wait until all pages are fully loaded
  • Stop timer - the delta is the time it took to open the web pages referred as while WW is updating
  • Close all IE windows
  • Restart the timer
  • Immediately open all 3 IE shortcuts again
  • Wait until all pages are fully loaded
  • Stop timer - the delta is the time it took to open the web pages while WW is NOT updating

Rgds,
xyn