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Tip of the Week: Speed Up Zune Marketplace Searches

Oct. 20, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

And with this I enter the "if I think I see it, it must be true" sweepstakes: Frank F. has just sent along a brilliant tip about speeding up Zune Marketplace searches. And if you use the Zune PC software, you know what I'm talking about: You search for something and on the left side, the search results for your local content are returned instantly while on the right side, you stare at a pink progress bar as it slowly parses and then loads the Zune Marketplace search results. Well, this will fix that problem. Or, I should say, on the two PCs I've tested this on, this really does seem to solve the problem. Zune Marketplace searches are now as fast as local searches.

In IE, navigate to Tools, Internet Options, and then the Connection tab. Click the LAN settings button and then uncheck "Automatically detect settings."

That's it. And it totally works. Or at least it does here. Give it a shot.

Thanks Frank!

Discuss this Article 27

planetarian
on Oct 20, 2009
Dunno about anyone else, but here on this win7 system, that is already unchecked. Searches are kinda fast anyway, though the progress bar still gets displayed for a bit.
jbrigance
on Oct 20, 2009
That "automatically detect settings" checkmark gives my work all kinds of fits - we do support for dial-up and DSL customers. Whenever our customers get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage" I bet half of it is because that box is checked. Or if the customer's IE just takes a long time to load - that box is checked.
Waethorn
on Oct 20, 2009
The "Automatically Detect Settings" is supposed to check to see if a server has proxy auto-config turned on, and then reconfigure the settings based on what it detects, but sometimes the network scan takes a long time to detect whether there is one or not - sometimes that related to an improper WINS configuration. It's on by default on most systems, and it doesn't affect SBS networks.
kcarson97404
on Oct 20, 2009
Wow! It works. Thanks so much for the tip. I love the Zune software but always found the slow marketplace very frustrating. This is great!
gfryesc1
on Oct 20, 2009
the wonderful user friendliness of the Windows operating system at play once again.
daveinla
on Oct 20, 2009
I would say the wonderful user friendliness of MS softwares in general !!
Logjamming
on Oct 20, 2009
Tip of the week Buy a new 27" iMac with bigger than HD resolution and quad core processors. Again, Microsoft has been put in the shades in their launch week by a enormous and affordable iMac and excellent sales numbers. So laughable.
chipwinter
on Oct 20, 2009
I just went to Amazon to check out Zunes, but I don't see them on the Bestseller list anywhere. Are they backordered?
mikegalos@msn.com
on Oct 20, 2009
logjamming Really? You think offering a quad-core is anything but playing catch-up with the rest of the market? You might want to look at the world outside of the Apple store sometime.
Waethorn
on Oct 20, 2009
" You think offering a quad-core is anything but playing catch-up with the rest of the market?" No. For the first time EVER, Apple is actually using a DESKTOP Intel processor - THAT'S playing catch up!
Waethorn
on Oct 20, 2009
Speaking of the 27" iMac monstrosity: LOL at the cheap Radeon graphics. No NVIDIA goodness on that one. So much for a unified graphics platform for Mac's.
Logjamming
on Oct 20, 2009
@ Mike Selective reading, which we've come to expect from you. But, hey, maybe Steve Ballmer will make the announcment today that he's changed his mind about copying software from others and monopolizing the market Guess not. Just another catch-up operation system, accompanied by tupperware commercials that invite you to host a W7 launch party. Microsoft will release its copied OS, Apple releases a 27" bigger than HD screen with quad-core processor and exemplary sales numbers. When will Microsoft release some decent hardware, besides the odd keyboard and mouse? Oh, apart from the infamous and expensive Failure-360 box. Microsoft is even more hilarious than Richard Pryor was in his best days. And so is this blog.
redunion1940
on Oct 20, 2009
Not to mention that the PC world has had Monitors that have been bigger than "HD" for a very long time, considering HD is just a coined term, because since almost the dawn of monitors they have had better resolutions than T.V.'s
Waethorn
on Oct 20, 2009
@logjam: Just because you post the same comment to multiple posts doesn't make what you say any more true.
Waethorn
on Oct 20, 2009
"Buy a new 27" iMac with bigger than HD resolution and quad core processors. So laughable." There, I fixed it.
redunion1940
on Oct 20, 2009
Wow the Mac Mini is really expensive, I can make a Quad Core AMD Athlon II Machine at 2.6 GHZ and 4 GB of DDR3 and some other things for around $500 instead of the $1099 with a 2.53 GHZ dual core, 4 GB of DDR3 and it has 500 GB HDD same as the Athlon machine.
james3mg
on Oct 20, 2009
Windows 7 RC here, that checkbox was checked. I unchecked it, and was stunned at the difference. Really, truely impressive. And rather rediculous that that is necessary for that speed, now that I know it's possible, lol.
derekpress
on Oct 20, 2009
Interesting, I'll give this a try. I have to laugh at the "bigger than HD" comment. Did your lord and savior Stevie J tell you to spread that rubbish? And here's a tip for you LJ: Microsoft isn't a hardware company!
xiphi
on Oct 20, 2009
Thanks for the tip! I've been wondering why the Marketplace would be sooooo slow. Now, it's instant!
yoshipod
on Oct 20, 2009
redunion1940 said: "Wow the Mac Mini is really expensive, I can make a Quad Core AMD Athlon II Machine at 2.6 GHZ and 4 GB of DDR3 and some other things for around $500 instead of the $1099 with a 2.53 GHZ dual core, 4 GB of DDR3 and it has 500 GB HDD same as the Athlon machine." And will that machine fit in the same size footprint that the mac mini does? Really, thats a great comparison. I can see the average consumer who is looking to buy a small computer. They see the mac mini, then decide what they really need is to build their own PC since it will be a couple hundred dollars less.
Balthazar9
on Oct 20, 2009
“No. For the first time EVER, Apple is actually using a DESKTOP Intel processor - THAT'S playing catch up!” For the first time EVER blindows is using a client security model implemented on UNIX systems nearly 15 years ago. That's playing catch up!
johnbaxter
on Oct 20, 2009
"Automatically detect settings" was already unchecked here, on the Dell. But I'm allergic to to automatic detection until someone proves that a particular instance works. That allergy saved me several years of DHCP annoyance until the vendors made the protocol actually work. Hmmm--on the laptop (original MacBook under Bootcamp) the setting was checked. Now unchecked (see "allergic" above). No Zune software there: both the Mac and the Windows aspects of the machine are disk challenged (80G disk split between them). The Dell was a clean install of Win 7 RC (replacin a Win 7 public beta which was upgrade over Vista). The Mac was a clean install of Win 7 RC over nothing. I'm not sure why they differed...perhaps I "solved" a problem on the Dell and don't remember. Yoshipod, I don't believe the "average consumer" builds anything. Plugging in the monitor cable (on a non-all-in-one) is hard enough.
johnbaxter
on Oct 20, 2009
What did any of the Mac/Windows blather above have to do with Zune search speedup? Spare us, please.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Oct 20, 2009
Bal Seriously? You're going to post that bizarre claim again? Really? The facts. Windows security model was created far more secure when it was introduced in Windows NT 3.1 back in 1993 than any commercial *nix system and it's been improved ever since. Why don't you go back to tying chmod 664 foo on your teletype. We'll stick continue using SIDs and ACLs and security reference monitor and object manager and ownership and all their descendents.
LandonAB
on Oct 20, 2009
OT... Awesome tip for Zune software, thanks!
Balthazar9
on Oct 20, 2009
Please Mike - I was cracking security identifier while still in my mother womb. Only under Vista did M$ join OSX and Linux in proper(?) adaptation of client security. johnbaxter --> "What did any of the Mac/Windows blather above have to do with Zune search speedup? Spare us, please." A somewhat more pertinent query is why bother confabulating a mere toy?
mikegalos@msn.com
on Oct 20, 2009
Bal Gee, funny how you always manage to skip actual tech details and pretend your wildly inaccurate and uninformed opinions actually have some credibility with anyone who has even a part of a clue. *nix vendors have only three choices 1) keep compatibility with the *nix system architecture and use a security model meant for a few dozen users on local teletypes talking to a 30 year old minicomputer 2) strip out backward compatibility and clone a modern security model like the one the Windows NT kernel had since it was released. You know, the one that was implemented and rated as C2 secure and designed at the B level. 3) add on security as a bag on a bag on a bag and have a modern security system sort of talk to the old system and sort of work as the hack that any non-architecture addon ends up being You can now go back to stories about your mother's uterus.

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