FINE TUNE IE LOAD TIME

[carly]

Hello there

I saw this on a web site and decided to try it out

One more way to fine tune Internet. Explorer load time
If you do this little trick, application load time may improve significantly. Right Click on shortcut to Internet. Explorer in taskbar ( If you do not see it right click on taskbar,click toolbar and select quicklaunch) , click on properties and under shortcut tab look for Target field. It should say some thing like "C:\Program Files\Internet. Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE". This is typical default. I am suggesting you to put " -nohome" without quotes at the end of this string with one space in between. It should read like this "C:\Program Files\Internet. Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome.
Doing this would help load the application quickly as time would not be wasted in connecting to home page again and again. This is good for normal use as well.


I tryed this out but i kept getting "invalid path" can this be done, or is there a mistake is this path.

This is from a site called xptune up, so it is for xp.... but maybe not for xp pro

Any ideas

 

[muz_j]

Do NOT copy of the path explicitly as stated - it's WRONG.

Append the command to the end of your shortcut, but do not alter your shortcut's path.

No offense, but you really should pay close attention to instructions that are provided online and do assume you can simply cut and paste settings from someone else's PC - as lots of things vary - eg: the path that is used for installation IE (as in this case).

PS: This "trick" is just stopping IE from loading its homepage. It's not rocket science - and you could achieve the same thing far easier by simply altering your IE homepage URL to this URL: "about:blank"
(do not include the quote marks - just the text in between them).

 

[carly]

Thanks

Yes i managed to figure it out, why do it the way it was stated,and as you said it is far quicker just to change your home page to "about:blank

thanks for replying