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Increase Internet Explorers Download Limit

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Luke Murray
Luke Murray
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Internet Explorer limits the amount of concurrent downloads. This is how you increase it

  1.  Click Start
  2. Click Run
  3. Type in “notepad” and press enter
  4. Copy the following and paste the HKey Local machine code underneath these instructions.
  5. Save the document as “IEDownloads.reg“
  6. Go to where you saved the document and double click it to merge it into the registry. If a confirmation prompt appears then accept it.
  7. Restart the computer and you should be able to download more then 8 files at a time.

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMAINFeatureControlFEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER]

“iexplore.exe”=dword:0000000a