Does anyone know how to optimise IE?

[Lyn the Pin]

Internet Explorer on XP was brill, never any problems. IE on Vista is another matter. It's as if it's just lagging behind the site I want access too as I keep getting the "can't connect" message screen. As soon as I refresh, I get access. I have 2mb broadband (cable).

I downloaded a "free" diagnostic tool which said that my IE needed optimising in every area, and it would do so for $30. ( only the diagnosis was free )

So, does anyone know how to tweak IE manually and would be willing to show me how?

Thank ye kindly.

[Stu]

I haven't tried this so use at your own risk :)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=179393

[Lyn the Pin]

What interesting and colourful characters occupy those forums.

What they said made sense, IE on vista downloads to industry standard, which is SLOW!!

So I followed the instructions and........WOWSERS!! to quote Insp Gadget.

Megafast page painting. Very impressive, you should try it Stu, your Commodore 64 should be able to take it. ;)

AND...I followed one of their links to the update centre and now I'm Beta testing Microsoft's "Silverlight" download software. Whoo hoo!

A result. Many thanks me old mate.

[JAL]

I just tried this and I'm glad I used System Restore first!. Increase in speed was pretty marginal but worse than that, some sites wouldn't show graphics and worse still, some (incl DIBB), wouldn't load at all!

[ccarcher]

get yourself onto Firefox instead of IE you wont be dissapointed

[Lyn the Pin]

They say that "Opera" is even faster. Anyone trying it?

[ccarcher]

Have used opera in the past its ok but takes some getting used to, you can actually download it as your browser on a Wii

Firefox is awesome and IE7 is modelled on it with tab browsing etc but not as good

its also without going into the technical reasons a lot lot safer than IE

[BevS97]

We use Opera on the kids ancient pc (which is running Linux), I quite like it, it runs quickly and seems to work which is more than I can say for IE on that pc.