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Asked: 2026-05-13T23:05:19+00:00

I’ve just installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on my desktop PC. I installed IIS,

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I’ve just installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on my desktop PC. I installed IIS, Visual Studio 2008, registered ASP.NET, etc.

I have this ASP.NET 3.5 website I’m working on running EXTREMELY slow on this new IIS. On STA and PROD servers (Windows 2003 Server) and on my old XP/IIS 5.1 everything runs smoothly.

A page which usually takes 1-2 seconds to load is taking 8 seconds!!!

I saw this post on IIS forum. It says something about Vista/7 not pooling connections (just to let you know, the website is running locally but it’s connecting to a SQL Server 2005 hosted on a remote server).

It seems that it takes a while to “start loading” the page… I mean, I click refresh and it stays for several seconds “Waiting for localhost”… Then when it gets response it loads the whole page normally…

I don’t have a clue how to force Win7/IIS7.5 to pool database connections.

EDIT: I’ve created a new empty ASP.NET web application to see if the problems happens too. The answer is no, it responds fast as it should with an empty default page. Maybe is something related to the DB connection. I will do a further test. It should be a way to fix it…

EDIT 2: Debugging the app I noticed that the delay occurs AFTER the execution of .NET code (Page_Load, etc)… so the delay seems to be somewhere when IIS serves the page to the browser.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For those having the same problem, here’s two possible solution.

    • 1) Disabling IPv6 support in Firefox (only for Firefox)

    Most of the authors that I found out about suggest this approach as quickest and cleanest solution. What you need to do is basically to open configuration settings in Firefox (about:config) and to change network.dns.disableIPv6 setting to true.

    • 2) Change localhost settings in your hosts file (all browsers)

    This came to me as an idea to check where and how can I interfere in IPv6 settings on my machine. I saw one of the comments on above mentioned sources saying that one can get rid of the problem by simply replacing localhost with machine name in the url.

    It didn’t take me long to check and see that disabling my IPv6 localhost lookup does the same thing as disabling IPv6 directly in Firefox.

    What you need to do is basically to comment / delete this particular line in your hosts file:

    #::1             localhost

    Note: ::1 notation is IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 127.0.0.1 lookup address.

    I believe the second solution might be more suitable for users who do not want to disable IPv6 in general, and the first one for all others that still do not use IPv6 in their regular work.

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