By MakeTechEasier.com
4 Tweaks to Speed Up Your Browser
There are hundreds of articles online covering various methods to speed up your web browsing experience. This article covers a few lesser-known tweaks which will improve your browser performance in Windows 7, and should be applicable to Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Exploler.
Retrieve your bandwidth
For XP, Vista and Windows 7, the QoS Reserve Bandwidths limit is enabled by default to 20% ‘reserve’ of your available bandwidths in order to assist certain applications like Windows Update. Changing the limit to reserve a lower percentage of bandwidth will effectively speed up your internet performance. To reduce your reserved bandwidth limit in Windows 7, you need to do the following:
Click the Start button and type “regedit” and hit enter. In the registry editor, browse to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Right-click on Windows and create a new key called “Psched”.
Then right click on the new key you just created and create a new “DWORD” entry. Name it “NonBestEffortLimit” and set the value to zero to disable reserve bandwidth.
This excerpt is shared with permission from maketecheasier.com.
