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Entries from April 5, 2009 - April 11, 2009

Saturday
Apr112009

Make Internet Explorer Faster

The tweak

Go to the registry key:

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

 

Look for the following values:

MaxConnectionsPerServer MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

If they don't exist, create them as DWORD values. Set these values to the number of simultaneous connections you want to allow. A good value is 50.

 

Download reg file

This reg file does the work for you. Download

Saturday
Apr112009

Make Firefox unbelievably faster in 2 min

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30.
This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select
New-> Integer.
Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!