Speed Up Internet Explorer 6

[afterlife]

First I recommend always that you back up your registry. This is done by firstly loading RegEdit from your Start/Run menu bar. Just type RegEdit and it should load correctly. Now select the Registry menu item and then select Export Registry File. Make sure your Export Range has All selected. Once this has been checked, Enter a file name and press save into your prefered location. By doing this it ensures that if everything did go horribly wrong, you can revert to a previous version.

Now if you look at your registry you will see the huge list of folders down the left hand side. Now what you need to do is select the following in the correct order:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>

Software>

Microsoft>

Windows>

CurrentVersion>

Internet Settings>

Once you have selected the correct sequence, the following selections and changes are the most important.

Within the right hand window of RegEdit you will see there are two strings named MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPerl_OServer, if these are not there then see below. Click on the first one, MaxConnectionsPerServer and then with the right mouse button click your right mouse button and then select Modify. A window will pop up at this point and you need to change the Value data to 6. Make sure at this point that Decimal is selected to the right. Even if you did not select Decimal, it would not matter because this will be the same as Hexadecimal unless it was over 10. So just ensure that Decimal is selected and it contains a value of 6. Now, Click ok and do exactly the same for the other registry entry called MaxConnectionsPerl_OServer.

If you find that 1 or both of these registry entries are no in your registry, then you will have to add them manually. To do this you need to move your mouse over to some white space in the right hand side of the registry editor. Right click and select the new option and then select DWORD Value. Now enter MaxConnectionsPerServer as the string name and then press the return key. Now repeat this process for MaxConnectionsPerl_OServer as the string name. Now modify these entries using the procedure above.

Once you are happy that everything has been done. Quit regedit and away you go. There is no need to reboot. If you fire up Internet Explorer you should notice a speed improvement when browsing the Internet.

[afterlife]

did anyone notice a change like i did???

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

so how does bringing them down to 6 speeds things up? i dont see the logic. i am sticking with ten until someone confirms this.

what did you have them at before the change?

[cork1958]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;en-us;q183110

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBF/TIP2600/rh2658.htm

http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/read/id/23

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=198

http://www.pureperformance.com/js/showtip.asp?id=42

Just for a few references!!

Edited October 21, 2004 by cork1958

[Veedems Veteran]

caps lock slows down IE. for the love of god, don't undo your efforts with a broken caps lock key

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[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

lol so using this tip word by word would have slowed me down from 10 to 6 sim connections.

[cork1958]

In your case, I guess so. The defaults are 2 and 4 respectively.

Ouch!! The thread had been decapitated!! :cry:

[Slimy]

i was wondering

when i add

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"="10"

"MaxConnectionsPerServer"="10"

to a reg file wut's the difference between putting ="10" and =dword000.. sum numbers, is it simply to simplify things because of hexadecimal?? like when u have the number 5000??