Hacking Vista: Speeding Up Your Web Browser and Network Connection
If your going to use Vista, you might as well tweak it and make it the best you can.

The following is a complete chapter from our recent ExtremeTech book, "Hacking Windows Vista." Our two previous excerpts from this book include Optimizing Core OS Components and Speeding Up the System Boot.

Your browser and network subsystem play a major role in the use of your computer. People are spending more and more time using their web browsers and the Internet, making the web browser the most used application on many users' computers. Now that you have optimized almost every major component of the operating system, let's cover the most used application and components it is dependent on, the web browser and the network that connects you to the Internet.

First you will optimize the speed of both Internet Explorer and Firefox by tweaking the number of active downloads. Then I show you some great utilities that will increase the speed of your downloads, followed by tweaks that will speed up your network.

Read all about it here, courtesy of Extremetech.com

Eric