Like Firefox, IE is very slow to load
pages. There are various reasons for
this: the number of simultaneous
connections that IE makes with the
server is limited and it also keeps
searching for network shares and
printers. There are some registry
tweaks to get around this problem and
significantly improve your Internet
browsing experience.
In the Registry editor, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Mi
crosoft/Windows/Current
Version/Explorer/RemoteCompute
r/NameSpace/{D6277990-4C6A-
11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} and
delete the key named Printers. That
ought to do the trick.
For opening up to 16 simultaneous
connections with the remote server,
and hence pushing your speeds up
considerably, you need to modify (or
create, if they don’t exist) two values in
the registry. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_
USER\Software\Microsoft\Windo
ws\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings and check these two
DWORD values:
MaxConnectionPer1_0Server and
MaxConnectionsPerServer. Change
their values to 0000010 and
00000010 respectively. After doing the
customary restart you will notice
increase in browsing speeds.