How to Do a Complete Internet Explorer Optimization

Last Updated: April 30, 2018

When it comes to browsing webpages, Internet Explorer is one of the most used and favoured browser in the world. However Internet Explorer or IE is often complained for sometimes being slow and having page loading problems. Most of these issues are generally caused by presence of lot of temporary files and cookies which are clogging up IE and slowing it down. Other issues include conflicts with add-ons and file corruption. Even though all issues cannot be fixed by this method, almost 95% of most IE related issues can be fixed by doing an Internet Explorer optimization.

Steps

1
Open Internet options (Make sure you close all Internet Explorer window before starting troubleshooting)
- Click Start -> Run -> inetcpl.cpl
- This will open Internet Explorer properties
2
Under General tab, go to Delete under browsing history
- Click delete -> delete browsing history -> select all options -> click delete
  - This will remove all temporary files, stored passwords, browsing history and cookies.
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3
Select Security tab
- Click “Reset all zones to default”. This will reset all zones to default settings.
4
Select Privacy tab
- Click “Default” tab under settings. If the option is greyed out, it means it’s already selected. There is also an option “turn on pop up blocker”. Make sure it is turned on.It will block unnecessary popups.
5
Select content tab
- Click “clear SSL state”. You will get a confirmation window. This can be helpful when you have issues related to logging in secured website.
6
Select Connection tab
- Click LAN settings. Make sure there are no entries inside Address box which is located under “use automatic configuration script” option (Certain software which is used for boosting dial up connection use this option. In that case, you can leave it the way it is)
- Under proxy server, make sure there are no fake IP addresses. If an ipaddress exists, remove it.
7
Select Programs
- Click “Manage add-ons”. Add-ons give additional functionality to the browser. But it can also interfere with the smooth function of the browser and sometimes crash your browser. Go through the list of add-ons. If you find any suspicious add-ons, click and disable it.
8
Select “Advanced” tab
- There are lot of options listed here, some of which needs to be checked or unchecked by default. Over a period of time, these settings might get changed because of malware attack or some changes in software settings.
9
Click “Restore Advanced Settings”.
10
Click Apply.
11
Restart Internet Explorer and check if the problem is fixed. IE should work fine and faster.

Community Q&A

Question

Internet Explorer keeps shutting down while playing pogo games, any tips?

Community Answer

Stop using Internet Explorer, use Google Chrome; it's faster and better and it also has a variety of things that are useful.