Save Bandwidth

I was in tension to Save Bandwidth.
But this is a way to save
Bandwidth.....




All of us come across a lot of advertisements
while surfing in the form of pop - up adds , most of which are pretty
useless.They hog a lot of bandwidth and also are very heavy in terms of size.To
prevent them from being downloaded you can always use Third - Party Programs
which are available everywhere.But I have experienced that the inbuilt Pop - up
blocker in WinXP used in conjunction with the Windows Firewall gives the best
results.
Turn on Pop-up Blocker through IE.To do this go to -
Tools ->
Pop - up Blocker -> Turn On.
Also change the Default setting from
“Medium” to “High”.
All of us always visit a few particularly common
pages each time we surf.For me those pages are
Yahoomail.com,Thinkdigit.com/forum,Gmail.com and my Blog.So instead of
downloading these pages every time we surf why not make those pages available
offline so that the amount of data transfer is reduced.
In IE to make an Web
Page available offline go to -
Favourites -> Add to Favourites -> &
check “Make available Offline”.
By default Windows XP downloads updates
automatically when it senses an active Internet connection without prompting the
User for doing so ( very irritable ). This does not make any sense when you can
order the updates (licensed users) CD’s for free from Microsoft.To turn off
automatic updating go to -
Right click on “My Computer” -> Properties
-> Updates -> uncheck “Download updates automatically”
Also do the
same for software like Norton Antivirus etc…..
( You can always get the
updates from mag CD’s , friends etc… )
Media Players like WMA 9,10
RealOne Player etc download the codecs which are not installed on your PC
automatically.In fact WMA also downloads the updates automatically.So to disable
this go to -
For Windows Media Player -
Tools -> Options -> Player
tab -> Uncheck everything you see over there.
Now while installing Real
One Player -
When the window for selecting your Connection Speed appears ,
check “I do not have an Internet Connection” located in the leftmost bottom
corner.
Always install a good free & easy to use Firewall such as Tiny
Personal Firewall ( available on Digit CD’s )
Using a firewall ensures that
no program unknowlingly accesses the internet.This acquires importance
especially in case of broadband connections wherein the connection is always on
once the modem is turned on.So when you are using your PC for doing anything
other than surfing just cut all access to the net through the Firewall and voila
! you are secure .
This one is for the extreme downloaders , Net junkies who
want to save their transfers to the maximum extent.
Prevent all multimedia
items like images,sounds,animations,videos,flash objects etc… from being
displayed by just unchecking everything here -
Internet Options ->
Advanced -> Multimedia.
But believe me this alone cuts down Data transfer
by 80%.Because only the text is displayed which is of a negligible size ( KBytes
).
However it is difficult to adjust to pages without those familiar buttons
& images and it takes a lot of time.But then our purpose of reducing data
transfer is served to the fullest extent.

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