Increasing Band-Width By 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc. Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. This opens the group policy editor. Then go to: Local Computer Policy Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Network  QOS Packet Scheduler and then to LimitReservableBandwidth. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default." So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

Internet Explorer As Fast As FireFox:

Open registry editor by going to Start then Run and entering regedit. Once in registry, navigateto key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\microsoft\Windows\ Current Version \InternetSettings. Right click on the right windows > New > DWORD. Type MaxConnectionsPerServer > You can set value (the more higher the no, the more good speed eg:99). Create another DWORD >type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. Then put a high value as mentioned above. Restart I.E and you are done.

Delete INDEX.DAT (Faster Browsing)

First of all open up the command prompt. For that go Start Run cmd. Now press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to bring up the task manager. In the task manager, go to processes and click on explorer.exe. End the “explorer.exe” task. All the windows will be closed down. Don’t panic. You can still see the command prompt. In the command prompt type the following command exactly as it is: Del "C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat" 


Note is the name that you use to log in to your windows. Some log in as “administrator” while some with another name eg: Sandeep. Whatever it is, type that name. This will also help in fixing all the issues related to browser performance, especially the ones that cause browser to hang frequently.