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There is another way that you probably don’t know yet for speeding the browsing.

When you connect to a web site your computers sends information back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name and the site IP address. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site.

Although Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase it’s overall performance by increasing its size. And if the DNS Windows cache is bigger this translates into more addresses remembered by Windows each time so it will search fewer times for site locations. This ends up by speeding up your browsing.

To make Windows do that you have to modify the Registry. The most simple way is copying the lines above and save them into let’s say registrychange.reg (using Notepad is recomanded) and run the file! It will make the changes for you:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
“CacheHashTableBucketSize”=dword:00000001
“CacheHashTableSize”=dword:00000180
“MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000fa00

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