3 simple steps to browse faster with Internet Explorer under a slow connection
If you are using a slower Internet connection, 3 simple steps can help improve your browsing experience with Internet Explorer.
1. Turning off graphics in Internet Explorer
Under Tools menu, click Internet Options
In Internet Options dialog box, go to the Advance tab. Now under settings, please turn / check off the following options,
- Play animations in webpages
- Play sounds in webpages
- Show pictures
- Play videos in webpages
2. Increase your IE’s cache size for faster browsing
Internet Explorer uses the cache to store files of webpages what you visit. So on next visit it doesn’t have to download those images and all those static page content again and again thus making the browsing experience faster
By increasing the amount of memory allocated in cache, you can allow IE to store more data for faster browsing.
Under Tools menu, click Internet Options
On General TAB under browser history / Temporary Internet files click Settings to open the dialog box where you can find the option to increase the disk space.
Increase the disk space to 250MB and set the option to check newer version of stored pages to Automatically
3. Compress (ZIP) your files before sending them as attachment
You can reduce the file size of your documents by compressing them, so when you are sending multiple files (picture / documents / spreadsheets), use Windows built in compression utility to compress them in a single zip file before attaching.
Reduced file size would mean less time and bandwidth for upload / attaching.
Brian on March 25th, 2010
this advice is very worked for my browser, thanks for the advice. i always pissed off by my internet connection because its too slow. its slow to pop up the browser when i click on it and also slow to go to the site i’m going to.