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postheadericon How to speed up Internet Explorer 7, IE6 in Windows etc

I’ve whinged about IE7 being too slow (certainly compared with the fab free Firefox, my fave browser ()) and found a registry tweak which helped. Now after more digging, there seem to be two main hacks to make browsing via Internet Explorer faster, which apparently (but I’ve not tried them on anything but IE7) work [...]

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  • chong: Alongside slimming the startup list, also run a diskcleanup. After that a full defrag will help speedup...
  • Eric Hollis: I have no doubt that breaking the symmetry of treating all icons (desktop or not) as windows would...
  • Nancey Haag: After that my machine performed MUCH better. I know this shouldn’t make a difference, but it was...
  • Jacob Bowles: “Well MacOSXHints has it wrong. Sorry guys, what is slowing down your machines is the size of the...
  • Daryl House: To do this set up a cron script to automatically delete it every night at around 2 am.