Howto increase the number of simultaneous downloads in IE7

One of the bad things in Internet Explorer 7 is that you can only download two files at the same time.

A site called VistaWired published a short guide that explains how you can boost the maximum number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer 7.

Here's what you need to do:

Make sure you're logged in with administrator rights

Go to the start menu and type "regedit" in the search bar.

Navigate to the following key in the registry editor: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings

Right-click in the empty space and create a new 32-bit DWord value. Name it MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server (The 0 beside Server is a zero)

Double-click this entry and set the value to 3

Create another DWord called MaxConnectionsPerServer

Double-click and modify the value to 3.

Now you should be able to have an unlimited number of simultaneous downloads running.