See the following:

http://www.langalist.com/newsletters/2000/2000-03-20.htm#5

(section 5).  It is a "standard."


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Are you using IE? I've also seen this behaviour and I can't find any setting
to change it (up to IE 5.5).

As another respondent said, if you have too many simultaneous downloads you
just degrade performance. But I like the control you get over downloading
with tools like Go!zilla.

joe

> -----Original Message-----
> I have noticed that if I download files such as files that I
> store on network drives or other files from the internet, I
> am limited to downloading 2 files at a time. If I try to
> download more files, the Save to window doesn't appear until
> one of the current downloads is completed. I am running
> windows 98 but I suspect it is a common limit on all windows editions.
> Is there a setting that can be modified to increase this
> limit to a value higher than 2?
> Many thanks,  Derek Pee.

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