Internet Explorer Limitied To Two Downloads

How Do You Do/Overcome This?

[noxbane]

It seems like everytime I try to download music from a website, i'm limited to two downloads at a time. If I do a "save target as" on a third mp3 link, while the other two are downloading, the third box will pop up but won't give me the option of saving it to the harddisk until right after one of the other two complete downloading.

My question is, is this a built in thing for Internet Explorer, or is this something controlled by a server side script? If its an IE thing, how do i overcome it?

[digitalv]

It's an Internet Explorer setting - you can change it in the registry, this KB article shows you how:

[support.microsoft.com...]

[grahamstewart]

> how do i overcome it?

Use a better browser? ;)

[noxbane]

Okay, The Microsoft article says this:

Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry values:
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=Dword:0000000a
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=Dword:0000000a

Quit Registry Editor.

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now then, it says "On the Edit menu, click Add Value". But whenever i click the edit menu, i never see the option "Add value". There is a "New" option with the suboptions String Value, Binary Value, DWORD Value, Multi-string Value, and Expandable String Value. But there is no generic "Add Value".

I figured i could just add a new DWORD value, and that would be the equivalent, but i dont want to **** anything up so i didnt try yet. Any help?

[digitalv]

Are you using a version of Windows that article applies to?

It took me about 15 seconds to find that on a Google search after I read your original post. Maybe you can do the same for your version of the OS.

[noxbane]

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The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP
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I'm using IE 6 for XP.

[noxbane]

well, I cant find **** on this. I find plenty of articles that tell how to increase max downloads to 10. But every single one says "On the Edit menu, click Add Value and then add the following registry values" and my edit menu does NOT have an Add Value. i tried searching for XP Pro specifically, thinking maybe its different between Home and Pro, but still nothing. Does anyone else using XP Pro have an Add Value on there edit menu?

[Sanenet]

Do the EDIT ¦ NEW ¦ "DWORD" option. Just make sure you back up the registry first! (Registry ¦ EXPORT REGISTRY FILE).