8 top tips for IE 7

2. Speed up IE's Web page loading

By default, IE allows only two simultaneous download sessions from a single Web server. This can affect the speed of your Web browsing, because you're not able to simultaneously download all the objects that make up a Web page, so the page displays more slowly. If you could force IE to download more objects at once, Web pages would display more quickly.

A tweak to the Windows Registry does the trick. With this tweak, you can force IE to use more than two simultaneous sessions. A good number is 10. Here's how to do it:

1. Run the Registry Editor by typing regedit at a command line or in the Windows Vista Start Search box.
   
   
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
   \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
   \Internet Settings.
   
   
3. Choose Edit --> New --> DWORD Value.
   
   
4. Create a new DWORD value called MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server, and give it a value of 10.
   
   
5. Choose Edit --> New --> DWORD Value, create another DWORD value called MaxConnectionsPerServer, and give it a value of 10.
   
   (Note: If you want to experiment with fewer or more than 10 simultaneous connections, change the value in both DWORD values accordingly.)
   
   
6. Exit the Registry and close IE. When you restart IE, the new value will be in effect and your Web browsing should speed up.

3. Get multiple tabs under control

Anyone who's tried tabbed browsing knows it's vastly superior to the old way of browsing, with a separate window for each Web site you're looking at. But once you get going, it's easy to get lost in a sea of tabs.

IE 7 includes a couple of shortcuts to help you find the right tab easily. To see a grid of thumbnails of all your open tabs, click the Quick Tabs button that appears to the left of the tabs. Or to see a drop-down list of all the open tabs, click the Tab List button (it looks like a down arrow) immediately to the right of the Quick Tabs button.

The Quick Tabs button is at the far left, the Tab List button to its right.

Want to close all the tabs you have open except the one you're currently on? It's simple. Just right-click the tab you want to keep open and choose Close Other Tabs from the pop-up menu.

Changing the tab settings to make the tabs warning vamoose.

It's easy to make that warning vanish forever. Next time you see it pop up, click Show Options, check the box marked Do not show me this dialog again and click the Close Tabs button.

Or to take care of this now without waiting until the next time you exit IE with multiple tabs open, follow these steps:

1. Click the Tools button and select Internet Options.
   
   
2. From the dialog box that appears, click the General tab and then click Settings in the Tabs section.
   
   
3. From the screen that appears (shown to the right), uncheck the box next to Warn me when closing multiple tabs.
   
   
4. Click OK and OK again. The warning will no longer appear.

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