help-how to download more files than XPSP2's default of 2 at one t

[Guest]

I have Windows XP SP2 along w/IE 6 SP2 ... and I'm about to call it all quits
over my ability to download more than 2files off the internet at a time.
What I have discovered is that SP2 defaults to allow only 2 downloads running
concurrently.

I had found a couple web pages that showed were to go in regedit and what to
do so that you can download up to 10 files at the same time. I'm not sure if
I didn't do it properly or it just doesn't work w/SP2.

Does anyone know a way and the steps on how to change the default out so I
can download more at one time. I finally got DSL and really want to test out
this puppy. Any help you can offer personally or by directing to the
appropriate webpage-preferably w/Microsoft- would be more appreciated than
you'd know.

Remember to always be good. But if you have to be bad then be better !

 

[Alan Edwards]

The restriction is much older than SP2.

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Have More Than Two Download
Sessions:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282402

....Alan

 

[Guest]

Thanks alan, a couple of problems
On the Edit menu, point to New click DWORD Value, and then add the following
registry values:
Value name: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.

When i do this i get the following error message:
The registry editor cannot remane New Value #1. The specified value name
already exists. Type another name and try again. should i find that value
and just change it?

or

The other sites I found gave me a different value name:
Value name: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server=Dword:0000000a which i found under
the one in the link u gave me.

as far as the other value name, it went in just fine

please help me here, and thanks

 

[Alan Edwards]

I don't understand your problem.
If MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server is already there with value data of
0x0000000a (10) then what is the problem?
Why do you have to find it? Isn't it there in plain view?

Your "different" value name is the same name
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. Why do you call it different?

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "DocTodd"

 

[Ricky]

Try this link.. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm line 55 right
hand side.

 

[Guest]

I’m so sorry…didn’t realize I really didn’t make any sense until I looked at
it again. I’m new to Regedit and I just don’t want to mess things up.

In the registry, there is already a value MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server so
obviously creating a new value w/the same name won’t work. It reads as below:
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server REG_DWORD 0x00000004 (4)
Listng both hexadecimal and decimal as base and value data of 4
My question, in a round about and convoluted way
1. Leave this value where it is and modify the base to decimal and the value
to 10?
2. Or should I use the other option of a new dword value
MaxConnectionsPerServer=Dword:0000000a. And if this is the option, do I
delete the orig. MaxConn. or leave it?

I tried the later option but it didn’t work last time. I don’t know what
the difference between just changing what is already there and creating the
new one does. Thanks for the help

 

[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

Save the following as MoreHTTP.REG and then doubleclick it to import the
values.




Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000008
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:0000008






--
Thanks,

Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Internet Explorer Trust

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Alan Edwards]

Just modify the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server value.
Right-click it and put "a" (without the quotation marks" as the Value
Data. Leave the base as Hexadecimal.

Remove the invalid value of "MaxConnectionsPerServer=Dword:0000000a".
You have misunderstood the intention with that one.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html



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[Alan Edwards]

Following Eric's response should fix it.
I probably should have suggested that method first as I have
previously used a similar response as:
(and I hope this doesn't confuse you further because of the subtle
differences)

Make up a file from the lines below. Copy into a file called fix.reg
which should be created in Notepad. Do not retype, copy in case of
errors. The 1st line in the file is the line REGEDIT4
Make sure your mail or news reader does not add any spaces to the end
of a line.
The last line must be blank.
Doubleclick fix.reg

-----copy below this line fix.reg------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:0000000a
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:0000000a

//How to Configure Internet Explorer to Have More Than Two Download
Sessions:
//http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282402

---- end file above here

....Alan