jeepster, Thanks for your kind comments but unfortunately, no worthwhile help has really been provided. Please let us know if the return to IE7...
Have you tried taking the checkmark out of the "close box when download complete" and then trying to "follow" the file by selecting open folder?...
There were actually a couple of maxconnection DWord tweaks that used to work quite well in Windows98 to "speed up" things with dial-up...
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