If you have been using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) you may or may not have experienced slow performance, this will really depend on your current hardware setup and on the other software you have installed/running. However, by implementing these quick speed tweaks, you should notice performance gains on any setup.
IE7 Tweaks
1) Disable the anti-phising filter.
Click on Tools -> Phishing Filter. Click Turn off automatic Phishing Filter
You should definitely notice an increase in performance after disabling the ie7 anti-phising filter. This has always been quite slow and has even been patched by Microsoft, but their patches don't always work.
The phishing filter is to protect users from fake sites that pose as a real website, eg: fake websites setup to look like PayPal, for the purpose of capturing user login details. Generally people are only lured to phishing sites from email links, but if you are worried about this, then you can leave the phishing filter on.
2) Turn off clear type
Click on Tools - > Internet Options. Under the Advanced tab, uncheck the box Always use ClearType for HTML*
Thats it. Those very basic tweaks should add some extra performance to IE7. We will explore some of the other tweaks later on.
