Internet Explorer : Managing Multimedia content We all know that Internet Explorer is great at displaying Multimedia content like pictures, gif animations, playing sounds, automatic image resizing etc. But, sometimes it may be required to disable or turn off all or some of these features. For example, when you are on a slow dialup connection you may turn off video, gif animation and sound contents to speed up your surfing experience. Or when a web site is taking too much time to load on your browser you can try disabling the multimedia contents to quickly see the textual information only. Internet Explorer includes almost every kind of customization options to solve your PC's surfing related problems. Let us understand them one by one. To perform every customization given below, you must start Internet Explorer, Go to Tools Menu and Click "Options..." item and click to "Advanced" tab. It looks as in the picture shown bellow.. Internet Explorer : Turning OFF Images By default, Internet Explorer displays all Pictures of all types including .gif, .jpg, .png and .art images. This display process takes some additional time to download the pictures and render them on the screen. If you are in a hurry to see your information and there is no need for you to see any picture on the web page, you can disable displaying picture in Internet Explorer. To disable picture loading, Turn off (i.e. uncheck) the "Show Pictures" item from "Advanced" tab. Now, all your web pages will be displayed without pictures on them. To enable picture loading, Turn on (i.e. check) the "Show Pictures" and click "OK" button. After that, click "Refresh" button to load all the pictures which are currently not loaded by Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer : Turning OFF Animations Turn On/Off : Play Animations in web pages Specifies whether animations can play when pages are displayed. Pages that contain animations are sometimes displayed very slowly. If you want to display pages more quickly, make sure this check box is cleared. When this check box is cleared, you can still play an individual animation by right-clicking the icon that represents the animation and then clicking Show Picture.