Iolo technologies launched new  versions of their popular Widows system maintenance and security application System mechanic . System Mechanic 9 will be available in two versions standard and professional . The standard edition includes registry and junk file cleaner ,error repair tool and vulnerability scanner . Professional edition offers few extra tools like iolo  iolo System shield , Search and Recover and DriveScrubber . We earlier shared tips to speed up Windows based machines . These softwares automate these task by schedulers ,so that we don’t need to worry more about security and speed of our system . Here you can download System Mechanic 9 free version that will work for 30 days .

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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.

PC Tools is famous for their products like Spyware Doctor , Registry mechanic etc . Desktop maestro is comparatively new product which deals with privacy ,file system maintains ,Windows registry cleaning etc .  Original price of PC tools Desktop maestro is usually around 40 USD . But here you can get a full legal version of this product absolutely free as part of PC Tools promotions .

PC tools Desktop maestro

PC tools Desktop maestro features:

Advanced registry to detect and clear possible errors .
Remove autostart entires to speed up Windows boot time.
Monitor changes in registry .
Clean unwanted junk files and history traces from Web browsers .
Optimize different settings of the system for maximum speed and performance .
Tuneup internet settings .

How to get PC tools Desktop maestro full version serial key :

This is a promotional offer run by Computeractive magazine .Go to this promotional page and sign up with your email address and other details . Desktop maestro serial key will be then sent to the submitted email address .

This is a legal promotional offer of the software . If you have any dispute , contact me via  form

Download PC tools Desktop maestro ( Computeractive magazine UK )  .

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.)

Ashampoo is famous for their easy to use software with clean user interface and navigation. Ashampoo Winoptimizer series of products are dedicated to Windows optimization, cleaning and visual enhancement. The latest version of Ashampoo Winoptimizer is 6, and here you could get a free full version of Ashampoo Winoptimizer 5. Ashampoo Winoptimizer 5 has become an old product. But it contains all the tweaking modules available in Winoptimizer version 6 with some changes in the individual components and interface redesign.

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