I know many of you may be shouting at me now saying, “Why do you even use IE in the first place!” Well first off, don’t worry, I don’t use it. I’m a Chrome user myself, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have IE installed on my machine and use it the odd time. I also know that the vast majority of web users use it and many people are forced to use it for work purposes etc…
We all know that IE isn’t exactly a speed daemon, especially when it comes to opening up new tabs, it just seems to crawl along. But there’s a reason for all this. It’s because of your add-ons, generally toolbars.
See this table below of the most popular IE add-ons sorted by the amount of slowness that they add to IE’s load times.
As you can see some of the most popular tool bars like AVG, AOL and even Windows Live are at the top of this table and are probably the main culprits for slowing down IE on you. Every time you load up IE you have to load up these tool-bars and add-ons as well, and they probably aren’t very well optimized for quick loading.
So how do you quickly speed up IE again? Simply disable these add-ons and toolbars and you should see a dramatic improvement.
One of the first ways to do this is to simply click the “X” on the far left of toolbars and this will disable them.
And the other way to disable toolbars as well as other add-ons is to go to tools and then manage add-ons.
You will then be able to see the toolbars and other add ons installed, as well as there load times. You can then disable whatever ones you dont want from here and you should see a decrease in IE’s load time.
