Want to Remove the Download Restrictions in IE?

A Simple Registry Hack for Internet Explorer

If you are anything like me you are constantly downloading files from the internet, I download new free-ware, games, movies, software patches, updates, etc...and windows IE has a limitation on the number of concurrent downloads you can have at any given time. If you aren't aware of the restrictions IE places on downloads, basically you can download two at a time and if you try for a third it will just sit there idling until one of the two finishes. There are two ways around this problem, one is a simple fix, open a new web browser go to the same site and start two more downloads, but this to can cause problems so I suggest the more advanced IE hack to get around this little issue.

So to accomplish this hack first I want to tell you that you will be editing your registry so you will want to be careful because the registry is sensitive and can cause problems with your system if you do the wrong thing. So first I recommend you backup you systems registry, I won't go into steps on how to do that but you can go to this website and it gives you details on how to backup a registry here.

Once your registry is backed up then we can proceed. When doing the modifications we will want to close all other programs just to ensure that there is nothing that will interfere with our changes we want to make. Now you will want to click on the Start button in the lower left corner of you window and go to the RUN command. It will open a small window with some text in a box and a couple of buttons. You will want to type REGEDIT in the text box and hit OK, this is going to open our registry, which is where we will be making our changes.

You will want to find the following registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings) which can be done much like finding a file in you file directory. Simply choose the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and expand it with the small + sign, then Software, and continue until you are in the Internet Settings option.