How to Make IE8 Faster

Make your IE8 Even Faster with Simple Tweak

By Mr.Byte • March 28, 2009

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IE8 I have been using IE8 ever since it came in beta and RC and I have loved it ever since. I must admit I also have been using Firefox before that primarily because of all the features were better in Firefox along with its addons.

But Microsoft has taken tremendous amount of effort to bring the standards in IE8 as they have been trying with Windows 7 also. If you read the article from PCWorld, you will realize that IE8 is indeed faster than Firefox but its too hard to notice the difference. So the browsing speed of IE8 has undergone some major changes and yet with a simple tweak you can increase the speed even better.

So how to make IE8 browsing faster?

All that you have to do is re-register a dll file as pointed out by Ed Bott from zdnet.

Run command prompt with administrator rights (Just right click cmd in Start and click Run as administrator) and type

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

IE8 Tweak

Restart your system and you should find a difference in the browsing speed of IE8.

I did experience huge improvement in some pages and relatively better performance in other pages.

Categories: How To, Internet, Software, Tips, Tweaks
Tags: browser, Firefox, IE8, Speed, vista, Windows 7

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7 Responses to “Make your IE8 Even Faster with Simple Tweak”

Killer Links #4
March 29, 2009 at 12:29 am | Permalink

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Ohsuzanna
April 14, 2009 at 8:32 am | Permalink

It’s a miracle! I’ve had problem with IE8 running slow and hanging and after I tired your fix, the problems are over! Thank you.
del
April 28, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

i did this and it did not work. i got and error code. the code is 0×80070005. what does this mean
Franky
May 10, 2009 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

i did this but … no change…
but i went to TOOLS > Internet options > Advanced (tab) > And hit RESET… it reseted all my setings… but now it works just fine… i don.t know what caused him to go slow… but now it.s ok
venkat
May 12, 2009 at 6:53 am | Permalink

very nice tweak I will try
nonw00t
June 25, 2009 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

unforunately this is one of those things known as a “bullshit tweak” that does absolutely nothing other than give a pyschological effect to those who try it. lol
hao
August 22, 2009 at 3:57 am | Permalink

this tweak about IE 8 made my browser a little bit faster but at least it make fast IE 8. thanks for this btw.