The Microsoft IE 9 “Speed up Browsing” Message

(Note: In the following, some of the pictures are kind of small.  To make them larger, double click on the picture.)

Sometime or another, as you run your Windows updates,  you WILL get an update permission request for Internet Explorer (your Microsoft browser).  This has a number of needed security improvements.  You should install it. But… after you install it you will start getting this message at the bottom of the screen:

It will drive you CRAZY!  If you google the problem, you will see pages and pages of discussion and recommended solutions.  The best I’ve seen, though it is technical, is this.
The usual solution, and the one that seems to work OK, at least for the present, involves setting a time limit associated with when this popup is triggered.

To set this time limit:

1. Make sure your menubar is showing:  Right mouse button click on the area at the top of the browser window. In my browser this area is baby blue.



2. You will get a selection list.  Click Command bar



3. The result should look something like this:



4. Left click the Tools entry and then left click the Toolbar entry

5. THEN left click the Disable add-ons:



6. You’ll get a window like this:



This shows a list of all the add-ons and the approximate time required to start the add-on whenever you start IE9.  Note near the bottom it says “Tell me when the delay exceeds” and then a box, which is this picture says 1 second.   The box is a “pull-down.”  Left click on the arrow and a list of times will display. Set that number be significantly greater than the sum of all the start-up times in the above list by left clicking on the appropriate number.  Left click Done.  The message should not reappear unless the total time to start up all the add-ons exceeds that number…. or until Microsoft decides to reset it during a security update.