Step 3:  Customizing your Settings

Notice in your taskbar, near your clock, you now have an Accelerator icon.  If you right click on it, then click on Settings, you will se the screen shown in Figure 2. 

Notice there is a “Slide Bar” under the two pictures.  The default setting provides a very good combination of quality and increased downloading speed.  However, you can adjust the slide bar to the left to increase speed but you will lose picture quality, or to the right to decrease speed but increase picture quality.  As you slide the bar left or right, the pictures (Figures 3 and 4) show you approximately how the quality of web pictures will vary.  If you are going to a site that has a lot of pictures you don’t care about seeing, then slide the bar to the left to increase loading speed.  If you want to see the web site picture in their highest quality, slide the bar to the right.  Leaving the bar at its default setting will not degrade the quality of web site pictures very much, and to most, the difference will not be noticeable.

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