1. ieSpell-Web www.ieSplee.com free for personal use, ieSpell adds set-up and spell checking options to Internet Explorer’s Tools menu and toolbar. A boon for bloggers and message board fans, you can check your spelling with a simple right –click to access the tool. It’ll check all the text on the page and offer suggestions if it finds any errors. Go to Tools> ieSpell Options first though to make sure you’ve selected the English(UK) dictionary!
2. Inline Search-Web www.ieforge.com/InlineSearch .Inline Search is a free plug-in that adds a ‘find as you type’ search box to the bottom of your browser. It starts searching for words in the text of the current page as soon as you begin typing, highlighting them in blue. If there are multiple instances of a search term, you can move through them with the Find Next button-or choose to highlight them all . Invoke Inline Search with the casual Ctrl and F shortcut-if you want to use Internet Explorer’s default search instead, you’ll nedd to go to Edit>Find.
3. Internet Tracks Washer-Web www.softcows.com/windows.washer.htm. For $29.95  Internet Tracks Washer helps you take absolute control over document history. You can wipe out your entire browsing record, blitz out your cookies and empty your temporary internet files. You can also do all these tasks selectively- picking exactly which web addresses and cookies to consign to the past. And though it’s predominantly useful for cleaning up your browser, it works with other Windows Vista tools, too.
4. Youtube Downloader-Web http:// youtubedownload.altervista.org . This handy tool can be used alongside Internet Explorer when you find video clips on YouTube you want to keep or pass on. Simply copy the URL of the page where the clip is embedded   and paste it into YouTube Downloader. Once you’ve got a copy of the clip safely on your computer , you can then use same program to convert the file into a format you can view in Windows Media Player- including AVI or MPEG 4. Not bad for free software.
5. Internet Download Accelerator-Web www.westbyte.com/ida . When you access a web site, Internet Explorer makes multiple calls to the server, downloading pictures, text and anything else simultaneously . On the other hand, when you click on a link to a file online, only one connection is made. Internet Download Accelerator makes file downloads faster by starting multiple connections to the same file, then assembling tge pieces on your machine . It also lets you stop and start long downloads-or resume them when your connection is interrupted. Registration costs $29.95.
6. StumbleUpon Web www.stumbleupon.com . Sign up for the free StumbleUpon service and you’ll open up a whole new way of browsing the web. It’s  not a search engine or directory … it’s something between the two. With the StumbleUpon Toolbar installed, you can specify a set of interests and be taken to random, but tried, tested and highly –rated sites that are guaranteed to please. You can also give ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ feedback to further improve the service. Search for one category only, or let the software pick for you. If idling away a few hours with some pleasant browsing is your idea of fun, it’s a must-have.

1. RATE SITES Download and install McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer and Firefox from www.siteadvisor.com – this provides traffic-lights ratings for web sites and search engine results. It’s not infallible, but it adds an extra layer of protection.
2. INTERNET SIGNS Red sites should be treated with extreme caution, but roll the mouse over the red icon to get more information – click ‘More info’ for a detailed rating, including what others think about the site and McAfee’s rating.
3. SCREEN EMAILS Most anti-spam and anti-virus apps only deal with mail once it’s been downloaded. PopTray lets you preview mail before downloading it, enabling you to delete unwanted emails without letting them onto your PC first.
4. SENSIBLE PASSWORDS Don’t rely on a single password for all your online log-in details. Use a program like KeePass to securely store them all for you. Also avoid logging into web sites by clicking on links in emails.
5. DOWNLOAD SAFELY Try to avoid downloading files from any other source than the program’s own site, or a reputable site such as www.download.com. Avoid downloading software from peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa – it could be infected.

WRITE CACHING WILL IMPROVE PERFORMANCE ON SATA DRIVES

This feature is disabled by default in VISTA because if your computer loses power before a write is completed,you can lose data. If you’re confident in your UP’s capabilities, crank it up and you’ll see at least a 10 percent improvement in performance. Remember, write caching is supported only on SATA drives. The options are grayed out for older ATA disks.

DO IT In Explorer, right-click the drive you want to speed up and select Properties. Click the Hardware tab, select Properties again. Click the Policies tab. Check both of the boxes beneath “Optimize for performance.”

MINIMIZE MENU LOADING DELAY TIME THROUGH A REGISTRY HACK

By default,both XP and Vista wait 400 milliseconds before presenting expansion menus [those menu items with right-facing triangles on them]. You can eliminate the wait completely for instantaneous menu expansion [though be warned, you may not actually like it]. Note that this will not make, say, you’re your primary File or Edit menu show up faster-those menus automatically load as fast as possible.

DO IT Run regedit at the Run prompt. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Desktop. Double click the MenuShowDelay key in the right-hand pane and set the value to 0.

CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT ‘VIEW SOURCE’ APPLICATION WITH A REGISTRY HACK

Viewing web-page source file in Notepad is hardly a user-friendly experience. You can hack the registry to change which app opens source files, but using TweakUI is a better choice.

DO IT Load TweakUI [http://tinyurl.com/553fw6], browse to Internet Explorer >View Source. Click Change Program… and browse for whatever app you prefer. This only changes the setting for Internet Explorer; to change the View Source app for Firefox, type about : config in the address bar, scroll to view_source.editor. path, and change the setting by pasting in the full path to the application you want to use. [The Firefox tip works with XP and Vista, but you’ll have to tweak the registry if you want to do the same for IE under Vista.]

DISABLING QOS AND IPV6 OPTIONS WILL IMPROVE BANDWIDTH AND WEB PERFORMANCE

The theory goes that you should disable any service you aren’t using, and that turning off IPv6 and QoS Packet Scheduling options in your NIC properties will boost browsing speed. One absurb legend holds that QoS alone actually “reserves” 20 percent of your bandwidth. Microsoft has formally debunked this tip, and our test back that up: We found zero difference at all in file-transfer speeds whether QoS and IPv6 options were on or off, on both XP and Vista systems.

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