internet tricks

Speed up Internet Connection
Speed up your Broadband internet connection

You can increase the speed of your broadband internet connection, if you are using windows XP on your computer. This is built-in feature of windows XP to reserve the 20 percent of bandwidth of your internet connection, but you can override of this default setting. By enabling these setting, you can use this reserve bandwidth and enjoy your speedy broadband internet connection. You can set reserve able limit from 0 to 100 percent, but if you want to enjoy 100 percent bandwidth of internet connection, you should configure bandwidth limit 0 percent.

Follow the given steps to configure bandwidth limit:

First click on Start button then type "GPedit.msc" in Run option and press Enter.

Under "Local Computer Policy" expand the "administrative templates".

Here in right side window expand the "Network" then highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler"

Now again in right side window, double click on "limit reservable bandwidth".

Under the "Limit reservable bandwidth properties" dialog box check "enabled"™ then change the "Bandwidth limit %" to zero.

Now close the Group Policy editor and restart your compute, after any changes to go into effect.

Set Multiple Home Pages
Many web browsers like Mozilla Firefox but now Internet Explorer 7.0 also allow you to set the multiple home pages. You can open all home pages at the same time; this is great option to open your favorite websites with a single click. But you have option to set single home page according to your need.

Follow the given steps to set multiple home pages in Internet Explorer.

First open the Internet Explorer 7 and go to the option Tools then click on Internet Options.

Select the General tab, here you will get option "To create home page tabs, type each address on its own line" and type the URL in the Home page section.

Type one URL in one line then press Enter to type another URL. Press Ok to finish.

Efficient Use of Internet Explorer
Adding Favorites in IE
While viewing the site, hold CTRL and press D to add it to your favorites.

Search in IE
To Open the IE search utility use CTRL and E.

Searching On A Webpage Using Find in IE
To Open the FIND box to search the current document use CTRL and F.

History in IE
To Open the History utility use CTRL and H.

New Browser Window in IE
To Open a new Explorer window use CTRL and N.

Refresh in IE
Press the F5 key.

Free up Screen Space in IE
Want to view more of the screen? Get rid of toolbars by pressing the F11 key. To return the toolbars, press F11 again.

Text Size in IE
Text too small to read. Click Edit...Text Size and choose large or larger to increase the size.

Screen Capture
Want to capture what you're viewing on screen? Press the Prnt Scrn (Print Screen) key on the keyboard and open Word or PowerPoint. Click Edit...Paste (Ctrl + V).