How to Configure Internet Explorer to Have More Than Two concurrent Downloads

Slightly techy one this but it’s a worthwhile hack to do if you have any connection faster than a 56k modem and use windows 2000 or XP. Basically Microsoft, in their wisdom, decided to limit the amount of downloads that Internet Explorer could handle (interestingly they claim it was to comply with Internet standards but that’s an outright lie – I’ve checked the standards documents). An even better solution is to download Opera and use that instead of IE – it’s faster and much nicer anyway.