Hi Rhumba and all, I tried rolling back my PC to an earlier date, as suggested by Fran , but even though the roll back dates are listed as available (Monday), when I actually try to initiate a roll back to those dates, when I reboot the PC, it says that date is not actually available to roll back to. I suspect it's because I performed a 'Windows Update' on Tuesday, like TomTomSF as mentioned, and you can't roll back to a date prior to a 'Windows Update'.

Interestingly enough though, the webpage loading seems to have improved 'just a little'. The annoying problem now is a 2-3 second hiccup the moment following the page load (when the status bar indicator shows as complete: indicator bar all green). At this point, the webpage hangs for 2-3 seconds, before the indicator bar finally disappears, and new loaded page is freely scrol-lable.

For example, in SZ, if I click on a link to a thread, such as This Very Thread , it will take a second or so to load (with the status bar indicator moving from empty to full (green). The new page appears, but I'm not able to scroll for another 3 seconds, and only then does the status bar finally disapear, and I'm then able to scroll up/down that page to view all the posting replies. It's like something in my PC wants to process (scan for virus' or ad-ware?) the webpage data before the new page can finally become scrol-lable. - Scott