IE tweak for more speed

[James Finch]

Dear Ross,



I cannot really suggest any programs that will speed up Internet Explorer. From my experience, programs that claim to speed up your Internet connection simply don't. I can, however, suggest the following:



* Delete your temporary Internet files every couple of days. A full Temporary Internet Files folder will significantly reduce your browsing speed, as well as causing a few other problems



* On the Advanced tab of Internet Explorer's Options dialog, in the Multimedia section, uncheck anything you don't need IE to load on a Web page. For example, if you uncheck 'Play sounds in webpages', IE won't bother downloading them. This will speed things up, if only a little



Other than that I can't suggest anything else without more information from you...



What speed is your Internet connection? What is your hardware set-up? Do other programs run slowly or is it just IE? If you are using a wireless connection, are you maybe a bit too far away from the router?



If you like, you can e-mail me an export of your computer info, and answer the above questions. I'll make more suggestions if I spot anything that is likely negatively effecting your browsing speed.



James Finch (MCP)

 

[Ross]

I am looking for a good tweak that will speed up IE 6 for faster web surfing.
A quick search of Google turns up like a million sites - too many to look
over. If anyone knows of a good download that will speed up IE 6 please let
me know. Thanks.

 

[Ray Parrish]

Forget it, it's bloatware that will never be fast. Instead download and
use Firefox. When Firefox is started it restores your last session with
all the tabs you had open last time.

I can start Firefox and load 6 or 8 tabs with web sites faster than I
can load IE with just my home page.

Later, Ray Parrish

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 10/28/2008 4:10 PM, and on a whim, Ray Parrish
pounded out on the keyboard:

Forget it, it's bloatware that will never be fast. Instead download and
use Firefox. When Firefox is started it restores your last session with
all the tabs you had open last time.

I can start Firefox and load 6 or 8 tabs with web sites faster than I
can load IE with just my home page.

Later, Ray Parrish

Curious. How are you "loading" IE?

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[Ross]

Terry, I am not sure what you are asking, but I click on the "E" on my
desktop and then IE "loads".

 

[db.·.. >]

well, we have no idea
what your current speed
is and perhaps you are
already as fast as can
be, but want to be "faster".

unfortunately, tweaking
the software you have now
won't surpass your current
threshold.

however, there is a quick
test you can try.

boot into safemode w/networking
and test run your web surfing.

if your websurfing in safemode
is faster than normal mode then
it is likely that programs are loading
and consuming some of your
bandwidth.

however, if there is no real
difference in safemode, then your
system is most likely optimal
for web surfing.

so the next step would be to
upgrade your internet connection
to a faster dsl speed.


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[Daave]

I am looking for a good tweak that will speed up IE 6 for faster web
surfing.
A quick search of Google turns up like a million sites - too many to
look
over. If anyone knows of a good download that will speed up IE 6
please let
me know. Thanks.

The speed of Web surfing depends on the following factors:

1. speed of Internet connection

2. whether or not malware is on your PC

3. certain antimalware applications that may be problematic

4 the presence (or absence) of certain browser add-on toolbars

5. something in the broswer cache that may be interfering with
downloading data

6. performace in general of your PC, especially whether or not you have
enough RAM

7. amount of content that takes up a lot of bandwidth, such as ads,
Flash content, etc.

Sometimes a good Hosts file is all you need to speed up your browsing.
Other times you need to remove all malware infections. Other times, you
need to assess if you have too many programs running in the background
for the anount of RAM you have installed.

If you give us concrete information about your PC, we will be able to
give you much better advice. For starters, let us know the following:

*** Make/model of PC, amount of RAM, amount of free space left on your
hard drive, the last time you entered your browser cache.

Speaking of RAM, we need to know if you have enough (if you don't, you
will be relying too much on the pagefile). Open Task Manager
(Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click the Performance tab. Then note the three values
under Commit Charge (K): in the lower left-hand corner: Total, Limit,
and Peak.

The Total figure represents the amount of memory you are using at that
very moment. The Peak figure represents the highest amount of memory you
used since last bootup. If both these figures are below the value of
Physical Memory (K) Total, then you probably have plenty of RAM.

*** Malware status and how you determined it. Which antimalware apps do
you run?

*** Method of connecting to Internet and results from speed tests, such
as:

http://www.speedtest.net/

http://performance.toast.net/

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

 

[Daave]

If you give us concrete information about your PC, we will be able to
give you much better advice. For starters, let us know the following:

*** Make/model of PC, amount of RAM, amount of free space left on your
hard drive, the last time you entered your browser cache.

Heh, make that *cleared* your browser cache...

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

I am looking for a good tweak that will speed up IE 6 for faster web
surfing.
A quick search of Google turns up like a million sites - too many to look
over. If anyone knows of a good download that will speed up IE 6 please
let
me know. Thanks.

Run the Internet speed test at speedtest.net and make a note of the result

Next

Start registry editor by clicking on Start | Run
..
Click in the Open dropdown box and type in regedit.exe

Click OK .

Back up your registry by selecting File | Export type in a meaningful file
name, in the export range section select All and save to your hard drive. To
restore your old registry you simply import this file.

Next you need to create a new registry key.

On the left side you need to go to the directory

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Select Edit | New | DWORD Value

Rename the new registry key to TcpWindowSize.

Modify the registry setting for TcpWindowSize by double clicking on the key.

Change the Base Setting to Decimal.

Enter the value 64240 and click OK, then exit RegEdit.

For these settings to take effect you need to close all your open
applications and reboot your system.

Run the speed test again and comare results

Good Luck

--
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[Ray Parrish]

By clicking on it's icon in the Quick Launch bar.

Later, Ray Parrish

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 10/28/2008 10:44 PM, and on a whim, Ray Parrish
pounded out on the keyboard:

By clicking on it's icon in the Quick Launch bar.

Later, Ray Parrish

You have a QL bar in Linux? ;-)

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[HeyBub]

Forget it, it's bloatware that will never be fast. Instead download
and use Firefox. When Firefox is started it restores your last
session with all the tabs you had open last time.

I can start Firefox and load 6 or 8 tabs with web sites faster than I
can load IE with just my home page.

Later, Ray Parrish

Firefox will give your cat warts.

If you don't have a cat, you'll probably be okay.

 

[Ray Parrish]

The date and time was 10/28/2008 10:44 PM, and on a whim, Ray Parrish
pounded out on the keyboard:


You have a QL bar in Linux? ;-)

Well, if I did I wouldn't be loading IE with it would I??? I dual boot
so I have both Ubuntu and Windows XP, not that I use Windows much anymore.

Later, Ray Parrish