Chris May

The HTTP spec specifies that you can not have more than 2 transfers when using HTTP 1.1, or more than 4 transfers in HTTP 1.0.

So what this means is that you can't download a bunch of files from the same server at the same time.

More info on this problem can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110.

You can configure WinInet to exceed this limit by creating and setting the following registry entries:

Note By changing these settings, you cause WinInet to go against the HTTP protocol specification recommendation. You should only do this if absolutely necessary and then you should avoid doing standard Web browsing while these settings are in effect:

These settings are made for a particular user and will have no affect on other users who log on to the computer.

In Internet Explorer 5, it is possible to change the connection limit programmatically by calling the InternetSetOption function on NULL handle with the following flags (note that it will change connection limit for the whole process):

Note If the process has established a connection to a server, if you change the connection limit by calling InternetSetOption, the function does not have any effect to subsequent connections on the same server. This occurs even if a previous connection is disconnected prior to the call to InternetSetOption. Connection limit does affect all other servers.

Keywords: IE Downloads, Concurrent Downloads, 2 downloads

I never ever ever want to click on the "Help and Support" button in the WinXP start menu, but I frequently do when trying to click on something else (usually "Run...").

I found this info on http://www.winxptutor.com/hidehlp.htm

To remove the Help and Support link from XP Start Menu, try this:

• Right-click Taskbar, choose Properties
• In the Start Menu tab, click Customize
• Select the Advanced tab
• Uncheck Help and Support option.
• Click OK, OK and close the dialog

For Windows Classic Start menu, you may need to modify the registry directly:

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced

• In the right-pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named NoStartMenuHelp
• Double-click NoStartMenuHelp and set it's value to 1
• Close Regedit.

This is a pretty good list of freeware utilities for all kinds of applications:

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

 

Microsoft pisses me off. This is such as pain in the ass.

To configure Windows XP to search all files no matter what the file type, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP and then turn on the Index file types with unknown extensions option.

If you use this method, Windows XP searches all file types for the text that you specify. This can affect the performance of the search functionality. To do this:

1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.

This tool helps to get around the dumb-ass WinXP burning features to allow you to burn an ISO image to a CD.

Just run the following:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

Here is another little trick that I have been making good use of...

1. Go to %SystemDrive%\documents and settings\%username%\sendto
2. Right-click in the right hand panel and select New > Shortcut
3. Create a new shortcut to Notepad.exe in the sendto folder.

Now you can send any file to notepad for easy viewing without any time waiting for a program (like VS.NET) to launch.

Works great for XML, HTML, script, and other text files that have a different extension.

Here is a little registry hack that I wrote. It will let you search important sites (at least important to me), from the IE address bar.

Sites include Google, Google Groups, MSDN, Dictionary.com, and WhatIs.com.

After you run the .reg file, you can have quick access to these sites by simply entering text into the Address box, such as "g tennis". "g" stands for google, so typing in "g tennis" will open a page with google.com searching on the term "tennis". Google Groups = gg, MSDN="msdn", Dictionary.com = "d", Whatis.com = "whatis".

You can add more using the same conventions that I did.