IE8: Increase the Maximum Connections Limit to Download More Than Six Files at One Time

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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By default Internet Explorer 8 limits the number of files that can be downloaded at one time to six. While this is higher than previous versions of IE, you can still get it to do better.

1. Open up Notepad (or right-click the desktop, mouseover New and select Text Document).

2. Copy and paste the following into the new text document:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPER1_0SERVER]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000010
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:0000000a

3. Save the document as ie8_maxconnections.

4. Double-click the new file to merge it into the Registry.

5. Continue through the UAC prompt and confirm that you wish to perform the action.

6. Restart you computer (or simply stop and start Explorer.exe from the Task Manager).

 

7 Comments -


  1. Frank said on April 22, 2009

    Are you sure you are only to double-click on the the text document?

    Frank

  2. RG said on April 22, 2009

    save as “ie8_maxconnections.reg” without quotas then it will merg

  3. Rob Rogers said on April 22, 2009

    You need to save the text document as a .reg file. Double clicking it will merge it into the registry.

  4. Frank said on April 23, 2009

    Thanks for the help to you and RG, I guess you have to be smarter than the average bear.

    Frank

  5. Anonymous said on April 29, 2009

    An oldie but goodie. Well worth reheating this recipe :)

  6. DLBB said on June 7, 2009

    I love IE8 very much.
    Thanks.

  7. j1sh said on June 8, 2009

    This may help:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282402

 

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