Recently, about a month ago, I got a new computer, and Youtube had always been fine. But recently, when I go to look at a video, it works, but everything is laggy, the video comes up lagging and it just messes with Internet Explorer.

 

 

 

Any idea why this is? No, I will not Dl Firefox =p

By laggy you mean it keeps pausing right (it stops alot for short periods of time). That might be caused by having windows media player set so the buffer is veary small, so it keeps running out of video to play and has to wait for more (it plays faster than it downloads and without buffer set high enough it dosent download enough movie befor it starts playing).

 

 

 

Tools>options than the preformance tab.

 

 

 

Set buffer to defult is what I would recomend (works for me) but otherwise I would suggest at least a 25-30 second buffer for a 5 minute video on youtube.

That might be caused by having windows media player set so the buffer is veary small, so it keeps running out of video to play and has to wait for more (it plays faster than it downloads and without buffer set high enough it dosent download enough movie befor it starts playing).

 

 

 

YouTube uses a flash video player, not Windows Media Player. Changing WMP buffer settings will have no effect on how YouTube plays back video.

 

 

 

It is more than likely just the line not keeping up with how fast the video is being played back. Just hit pause when the video starts and let it load a bit more before you start watching any of it.