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By default, IE will only let you perform 2 concurrent HTTP downloads at a time. If you do a lot of heavy IE work using downloads (music, files, etc), this setting does not make a lot of sense. You can increase this number by adding 2 new values to your registry under the following key:


  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings



Then, you would create 2 new DWORD values:


  MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

  MaxConnectionsPerServer



I use 10 (Dword:0000000a) as the value for each - thereby allowing me to run 10 concurrent HTTP downloads. Give it a try!