I just installed Yahoo bar.... nothing changed. It came with a Java update.
You might want to download Mozilla firefox and use that instead.
It is much better than IE.
I don't understand computers much either. But this summer I tried using my hubbys work laptop...it had a 3G card and I wanted to see if it would work way out where we are on vacation and no internet connection. It defaulted to 2G and was very slow.
It also had a business firewall on it that interfered with my ability to navigate here. I couldn't access User CP, had trouble with the smilies loading and other graphics, and it was enormously SLOW.
So if you have a firewall on your computer, I'd look at it too.
It is possible you have a virus/trojan. Doing a free scan at TrendMicro may find it if it is there:
Housecall:
http://free.antivirus.com/clean-up-tools/
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