The forums here are just terrible. Navigating from page to page takes at least 10 seconds. And my internet is fairly speedy. Normally on forums should take >half a second. Questions never get completely answered before they are already on the 3rd or 4th page, obsolete to everyone but the asker. So, make each forum page at least 5 times longer. Better servers. And more dedicated answering staff. Please. Norton AntiVirus 2009

I'm sorry that you feel that way, but you might want to post about it here:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tnfeedback/threads/, in the TechNet feedback forum.And if you don't mind me asking, what is your internet speed?

Hi TechOutsiderThanks for the feedback.I haven't seen the behavior that you are describing? These forums appear to be very fast loading.Messages will move very fast, when the forums are busy like these forums.You can solve this problem by simply clicking the "My Threads" link at the top of any page, after you log in, and see only the threads that you have started or participated in.Another way that helps is to right click any thread you want to view and select "Open in new tab".You can also preview a thread before you decide to open it. In the list of threads, just to the left of the thread title, there is a small arrow. Click this arrow and the first few messages will appear as a drop down display. You can also click Reply in the preview view.Hope this helps. Ronnie Vernon MVP

The forum load fast, but the search is horrible!It just doesn't work! I've tryed to search "mouse", my posts (posted days ago) and lot's of others simply doesn't appears!!!!

It seems a bit slower than regular fora, but that's probably just because it has all this semi-active content that automatically refreshes the page. I have to admit I can't get the Search function to work properly either and I've tried it on XP and 7 with both IE and Firefox.

Im at work at the moment and using Win XP the pages load very fast, but when i'm at home and using Win7 and IE8 beta, the symptoms are just as TechOutsider described.This isn't the only site affected many of my other fav's are the same when using Win7 and IE8.

This totally describes my own experience: these forums are super slow, and the search is close to useless.I must add that I absolutely hate forums that do not work with javascript disabled!So I have to enable it - but worse than that, loading a page is ridiculously slow, and clicking on a page number often doesn't work (in more than 50% of the clicks), I first have to reload the page, wait, then click the next page number.Moreover, typing a message is so slow, too, the letters appear almost a second later after having been typed!I appreciate these forums as a good source of information and help, but the forums experience is one of the worst I ever had.

I have to agree.. of all the forums that I frequent these are the slowest, clunky, aggravating forums to use.The issue seems to be that when I (and probably others) scroll up and down the list the mouse is in such a position as to activate the hover down arrow that opens up the thread within the list. Moving up and down becomes "clunky" if I move my mouse to the exttreme left of the page then it runs beautifully. This happens on IE 7 and * beta along with FF 2, & 3. Along with that the readability is actually decreased because of the color scheme (if anyone knows a way to change it let me know), most forums use shading to visually seperate the threads, but this one is like looking at an excele spreadsheet thats missing the divider lines (yes i know there are lines but they fade into the pure, glaring, blinding white that is the background.Also there is the long delay going from page to page. I am on a 16Mbit connection and every page transition consists of: Click (wait 2 seconds) page changes to the top but the threads are a mix of the last page and the first page in no particular order (wait 3 seconds) the page finishes loading then i can move on. This is s true on my 3GHz C2D with 4gig of ram as on my P4 Northwood 2.4 at work....Anyway just voicing a complaint cause I can :)

Cold_Realms said:I have to agree.. of all the forums that I frequent these are the slowest, clunky, aggravating forums to use.The issue seems to be that when I (and probably others) scroll up and down the list the mouse is in such a position as to activate the hover down arrow that opens up the thread within the list. Moving up and down becomes "clunky" if I move my mouse to the exttreme left of the page then it runs beautifully. This happens on IE 7 and * beta along with FF 2, & 3. Along with that the readability is actually decreased because of the color scheme (if anyone knows a way to change it let me know), most forums use shading to visually seperate the threads, but this one is like looking at an excele spreadsheet thats missing the divider lines (yes i know there are lines but they fade into the pure, glaring, blinding white that is the background.Also there is the long delay going from page to page. I am on a 16Mbit connection and every page transition consists of: Click (wait 2 seconds) page changes to the top but the threads are a mix of the last page and the first page in no particular order (wait 3 seconds) the page finishes loading then i can move on. This is s true on my 3GHz C2D with 4gig of ram as on my P4 Northwood 2.4 at work....Anyway just voicing a complaint cause I can :)I have to agree. The problem can't be ignored. One person claimed that there was no problem. Several others did.Just another couple of gripes: The submit button is often non-responsive. And logging in give me an warning about unencrypted information. I would really appreciate it if the info. was encrypted ... to avoid a pop-up that stops the page from rendering. And the search is horrible; can't even find my own posts. I manually searched for them and found them, obsolete on the 5th page. http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n410/stone_cold_05/untitled-24.jpgOne more question: Does MS look for suggestions and bug reports in other popular 7 forums; TechNet is what .. ranked 4th or 5th on Google. And the capability to embed an image would be nice. This YouTube video should show you what my experience is like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dg6H6uiZrANorton AntiVirus 2009

I didn't see anything like a 10 second delay demonstrated by your video. BTW what is the significance of your signature?If it means that you havean AV scanning each and every post bi-directionally as soon can be configured to do,I would try disabling that feature.

My AV does not have a "web shield" or "web guard", as many others do. Thus it does not slow down web access. Look at Kaspersky. The #1 complaint is that it slows down web browsing.And a 10 second delay is pretty long. And often times the buttons are non-responsive. Norton AntiVirus 2009