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#450
Problems with MS browsers Edge and IE11
Hi Kari.
Good to see you’ve produced a version of this procedure for Windows 10. I adopted this as a standard part of my new system builds in Windows 7, but stopped using it at some point in Windows 8 because of a problem or incompatibility I encountered that suggested it wasn’t such a good idea. I wish I could remember what it was, but I can’t – Do you know of any common problems or good reasons for not redirecting user folders? The advantages are clear to the point that it’s fair to ask why Microsoft doesn’t provide a simpler way to implement it, but what are the drawbacks/incompatibilities to take into consideration when deciding whether to implement user folder redirection?
Anyhow, I decided to use it again for some new Windows 10 desktops I’m building. The components are quite old but I’d bought them together to build ten PCs and only ended up doing five so it makes sense to use what I already have. I just added the OCZ SSDs as they were recently offered at a very attractive price.
Mobo: Asus P7 Q57-M DO
CPU: Intel Core i5 660, 3.33GHz
RAM: 8GB
SSD: 128GB OCZ Trion 100 (for OS C:\)
HDD: 500GB 2.5” Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 (for Data D:\)
I did the initial installation on one of the old PCs that didn’t have an SSD, jut the Hitachi spinner partitioned into two. Everything appeared to be fine.
I then used Macrium Reflect to clone the C:\ drive to one of the new PCs and, again this went pretty smoothly and appeared to be fine. There were one or two drivers that needed updating and cloud services (OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive) had to be re linked, but everything appeared to be there and working. It wasn’t until I tried to start the Edge browser that I knew there was a problem. Edge starts up momentarily then just disappears. Retrying it just produces the same result so I tried IE11, which I’d have to default to anyway as I use RoboForm extensively and there’s no integration with Edge, but whilst this browser did work (just about), it’s excruciatingly slow. I’m not just talking about the sluggishness for which IE has something of a reputation, I mean unusably slow - taking several minutes to load a page.
I hadn’t noticed these problems on the source machine, but went back to check and found that Edge was fine. This suggests that it’s most likely something in the cloning process that’s caused the problem, but the IE issue was present even here (although to a lesser degree) so I’m wondering if the folder redirection has something to do with it as it’s the only non-standard part of the build.
Any ideas?