Tips to Speed Up, Optimize & Boost Internet Explorer 8, IE7 and IE6 Performance. Home > Articles > 1. Tips to Speed Up, Optimize & Boost Internet Explorer 8, IE7 and IE6 Performance. This article is a tutorial that explains how to speed up Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 without compromising on features. Most users of this guide will immediately see up to a 5.
DISCLAIMER Proceed at your own risk! The information here is accurate to. I will not be held responsible if this. In real serious terms, if any corruption of data, hardware damage.
I will not be responsible for it. If you. don't like this, please don't read any further. Disable Unneeded Add- ons. This is the Number 1 culprit in slowing down your browser. To get an idea of the speed boost you can get, go to Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet Explorer (No Add- ons). How Much Speed Are We Talking?
The Bing Bar works with PCs running: Windows 7 or higher; Windows Vista; Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3; Internet Explorer 7 or above; But you can still get the. Internet Explorer is a browser developed by Microsoft. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) is based on the Trident render engine. Ietester is an application that allows to test on multiple ie versions at the same time in the same application.
Internet Explorer 8 and 9 have been out for awhile now. Should you install them? Yes, even if you don't use them. 10 Tips to Speed Up, Optimize & Boost Internet Explorer 8, IE7 and IE6 Performance Version 0.512 This article is a tutorial that explains how to speed up. Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers.
You will now see Internet Explorer start without any add- ons or toolbars. The speed of how the browser starts now may have startled you. Try out the browser now. Very much faster? Now you realize how those pesky add- ons have been slowing down your browsing experience.
However, in this mode, you won't be able to watch You. Tube videos as the Flash add- on is also disabled. We will fix this now. Close the browser and start the browser as normal. In the browser, go to http: //www. Next, we need to go to Manage Add- ons- For IE8 and IE6, go to Internet Explorer > Tools > Manage Add- Ons.
For IE7, go to Internet Explorer > Tools > Manage Add- Ons.> Enable or Disable Add- ons. You will now get the Manage Add- ons window. Manage Add- ons window in IE8. This is how Manage Add- ons looks like in IE8. The difference between earlier versions is that they have some additional functionality missing, but the main functions we need are there.
Make sure under 'Show: ', only 'Add- ons currently loaded' is selected. For IE8, under "Show: ", "Currently loaded add- ons" should be selected. For IE6 and IE7, under "Show: ", "Add- ons currently loaded in Internet Explorer" should be selected.
Now you have a list of add- ons that are currently loaded. What you need to do now is to disable all add- ons that you don't need. So now you ask, how to disable an add- on? For IE8, click the add- on on the right column, and click the Disable button at the bottom. For IE6 and IE7, click the add- on and at the Settings box at the bottom, click Disable. Here is a table of some commonly known add- ons that you can disable.
The value in square brackets [ ] indicate my personal opinion of whether it should be disabled. Adobe PDF Link Helper.
Open PDF documents in the same IE8 window without opening Adobe Reader. Yes, unless you prefer reading PDFs within Internet Explorer's window. PDFs will still open in Adobe Reader when this add- on is disabled [DISABLE]2. Research. Adds additional links to the menu bar Yes [DISABLE]3.
Diagnose Connection Problems.. Helps you to diagnose connection problem whenever there is a problem connecting to the Internet. Yes, enable it when needed [DISABLE]4. Java(tm) Plug- In SSV Helper. Java(tm) Plug- In 2 SSV Helper. To display Java content Depends.
If the sites you visit require Java (e. Internet Banking sites), then you have to leave this on. If not, disable it [ENABLE]5.
Windows Live Toolbar / Windows Live Sign- in Helper / Windows Live Toolbar BHO / Search Helper. Windows Live Toolbar. Disable if you don't use the Live!
Toolbars. Windows Live software will still function normally [DISABLE]6. Windows Messenger. Helps you to sign in to Hotmail or other Passport sites automatically if you are already signed in.
Yes [DISABLE]7. Blog This with Windows Live Writer. Gives shortcuts to post the current webpage content and title quickly to your blog. Enable it only if you use this function. Otherwise disable. DISABLE]8. Shockwave Flash Object.
Allows playing of embedded Flash videos at webpages such as You. Tube. Do not disable.
ENABLE]Almost all of the add- ons can be disabled as they are not used. Disable Automatic Configuration. Some PCs have this set for some reason, slowing down every time you open the browser. If you in a work environment, do not use this tweak as it may cause your Internet not to work. To disable this, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings. Uncheck all the boxes under Automatic Configuration.
Increase the Max Connections Per Server. Internet Explorer 7 and below are limited to two connections per server. This is why you can only download a maximum of two files from one website.
Internet Explorer 8 raises this limit to 6. Here is how to increase the number of HTTP simultaneous connections to 1. By having 1. 0 connections, IE will be able to download 1. This will make web pages load faster. If you are using Internet Explorer 7 and below. Go to Start > Run Enter "regedit" and hit ENTEROn the left, navigate to the following HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current.
Version\Internet Settings folder by. Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then. Software, then. Microsoft, then. Windows, then. Current. Version, then. Internet Settings Internet Settings should be selected on the left column. Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value.
A box should appear. Put the name as "Max. Connections. Per. Server", without double quotes. Press Enter. Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 1. Value data. Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value. A box should appear.
Put the name as "Max. Connections. Per. Server", without double quotes.
Press Enter. Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 1. Value data. Close Registry Editor.
Restart your system. If you are using Internet Explorer 8.
Go to Start > Run Enter "regedit" and hit ENTEROn the left, navigate to the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\Feature. Control\FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER folder by. Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then. SOFTWARE, then. Microsoft, then.
Internet Explorer, then. MAIN, then. Feature. Control, then. FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVERFEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER should be selected on the left column. Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value.
A box should appear. Put the name as "iexplore. Press Enter. Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 1. Value data. On the left, click on FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPER1_0. SERVER, which is just near to the one already selected. Go to Edit > New > DWORD Value.
A box should appear. Put the name as "iexplore. Press Enter. Double click the entry you just created, select Base as "Decimal" and type 1. Value data. Close Registry Editor. Restart your system and the changes should take effect 4. Use a HOSTS file (Advanced)Firefox has Ad. Block Plus. Internet Explorer?
HOSTS file. Unfortunately, the Hosts file method is not as straight forward as Adblock Plus. For one, it blocks websites at a domain level. Next, removing an entry from the file requires you to go through some technical steps. But once you get it working, you realize the speed benefits.
Sites load faster. Here's how to install Hosts. Man, a free software that helps to manage the HOSTS file. Go to http: //www. Click Hosts. Man on the top. Under "Download (Installer version)" header, click a download link under "Download from: "When your browser prompts you what to do with the ZIP file, click OPENThere should be a single file named Hosts.
Man_Setup. exe. Double click it to install the manager. First Setup screen of Hosts. Man. Click Next in the following dialog boxes to install Hosts. Man. After installation, the following interface appears: Hosts. Man Main Interface. Click on the button in the middle to download the latest filter list On the box that appears, click Update.
If Hosts. Man asks whether to update the Hosts file, click Update. Once you are done, you can close Hosts. Man. Hosts. Man does not need to be running. If you ever need to remove a site from the filter list. Start Hosts. Man (Start > Programs > Hosts.
Man > Hosts. Man)Click the third button. Click Find in the top toolbar.
Type the site name without the http: //The table at the top of the window will be highlighted with the matching row. Check the box in the second column for that row. Click Save on the toolbar. Close the window and Hosts. Man. Restart the browser. See what I mean when I said removing an entry is not easy?
When a site is blocked, visiting it directly in Internet Explorer 8 will pass it as a search query to your default search engine (Bing. Here's how to handle localhost requests internally, speeding up browsing. Start Hosts. Server (Start > Programs > Hosts. Man > Hosts. Server)Tools > Hosts. Server > Control Panel.
Click on 'Start Server'. The Server Status should now be 'Running'Click on Options. Check the box 'Start Hosts.
Server automatically'Uncheck the box 'Enable Log'Click Apply. Close. Now when you visit a blocked site directly, the message "Blocked: (domain name)" will be shown instead. Page loading times will now have a significant improvement. Increase the Half- Open Connection Limit (Advanced)Windows XP SP2 and above limits the number of half- open connections to 1. This is not a big issue, and increasing the limit yields little benefits.
To increase the limit, there are two freely available patchers: Lvllord Patch - ONLY for Windows XP Users (NOT Vista/Windows 7 users, see next step for Vista users) UPDATE: There has been a recent Automatic Update (MS0. January 8 2. 00. 8 that addresses some network security concerns. The below has NOT been tested with the latest TCPIP. SYS (v. 5. 0. 2. 19. Update: The patch has been tested with KB9. Go to this site - http: //www. Click on Downloads.
Right- click the link and click "Save Target As". Save it in your Desktop. Open the file and run the program located inside the archive, agreeing to the security warning. Some text should scroll by in a MS- DOS window, after it ends, type C. Enter 1. 00 for the number of concurrent half- open connections and press Enter.