Tonec announced Internet download Manager 6, an upgrade for the popular download accelerator/ manager for Windows. IDM is a very small, but powerful application that includes every option that we expect in a download manager. It can split large files into pieces and join them at the end of download. This method allows multiple connection to the server and let users download file in a faster way. Internet download manager 6 provides up-to five time faster downloads when compared with the normal browser based options. IDM 6 fixes compatibility issues with many browsers and upgrades the way it grabs FLV videos from YouTube, MetaCafe, DaliyMotion, Hulu and other services. (more…)

Microsoft’s internet explorer is one of the mostly used browser with more than 50 % market share .Internet explorer is slightly slow when compared with other browsers like Mozilla ,Chrome etc . And older versions ,especially internet explore 6 produces incompatibility issues with many websites . But still people prefer internet explorer as its bundled with Windows  .The latest version ,Internet explorer 8 has few new features , but speed is still axed by numerous internal settings . So here we have some tips to improve browsing speed in Windows and internet explorer 8 .

Old Windows hacks to improve internet speed is too applicable for internet explorer 8 .

Speed up internet explorer 8 by registry file :

Earlier in our article to speed up Firefox ,we used a technique to increase the maximum simultaneous internet connections to improve speed .The same method can be used here .
Download registry file , double click and add it to Windows registry . Now restart internet explorer 8 , you would notice a slight improvement in speed if you are using broadband .

Use software to tune TCP/IP settings and speed up internet explorer:
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Onspeed is software designed for improving general internet speed in Windows based computers  We have already  shared a method to get full version of Onspeed here .

Adjust general settings to speed up internet explorer 8:

If you have good antivirus software, you may turn off SmartScreen filter in internet explorer 8 . This will avoid the slight delay in comparing a site with default list of phishing websites in Microsoft servers .

How to do this : After installation , go to tools >you will see a message box for internet explorer 8 setup .

Click on next > Select to turnoff suggested sites  >Choose custom settings > Show me more providers(If you want to set Google as your search engine ) >No I don’t want to download updates > Turn off all accelerators > Turnoff SmartScreen filter > Do not download updates .

Configure multimedia options to speed up internet explorer 8 .

Open internet options from tools >Go to advanced and select multimedia . Here unpick use cleartype for HTML , play animations and play sounds .

Disable unwanted addons to speed up internet explorer 8 :

Addons consumes extra bandwidth and memory in internet explorer 8. You may turn off Windows messenger and other other unwanted IE addons .

Go to tools and select manage addons .
Right click each one and get details information for classification .

ope these methods improve browsing speed in Windows and internet explorer 8 .

Check how you canincrease internet speed in mobile devices.

As we all know, Dial-up internet really sucks when it comes to speed. But comparatively low charges makes many users to stick on to their Dial-up plans. Another option there is to  make some changes in hidden operating system settings related to internet, and bring maximum speed from existing Dial-up plan. These settings can be done manually or by using software. Onspeed is such a software that can speed up normal dial up internet to 20-30% and broadband to about 10%. Onspeed is a shareware but here you can download onspeed full version through a promotional offer.

Onspeed is trusted software provider who are having more than half million customers. Their technology CSC (Content Sensitive Compression ) compresses web pages and emails, before they are sent to users browser. It is somewhat similar to the technology used in Opera mobile browser. They compress almost all static and dynamic websites with graphics and images. Unfortunately this technology doesn’t work with streaming videos and SSL secured websites. Here Onspeed uses their compression servers to speed up dial-up and broadband connection of licensees. So you have to license Onspeed with  about £25/ year.

Thanks to Tata communication service YuvaYantra. Now they are offering full version of Onspeed 6 for free. And this offer is available only for Indian customers. Others may also access this offer by using  Indian proxies or VPN.You can also check their previous free Kaspersky Antivirus offer.

Download Onspeed 6 full version here.

(It seems that Tata closed YuvaYantra site and its operations. So download link is no more available.)