Is Zune Marketplace Slow? Here is your Fix
To preface, I am indeed a Zune user and had been lamenting the horrible slowness of the Zune marketplace. So after a brief search, I managed to find a solution which seems a bit odd that it works, but it does… dear lord does it work!
The solutions was found here – and the post on that site includes screenshots if you need them. However, here is the text of the fix which should suffice for the majority of people:
This is a fix for slow Zune marketplace on Win 7, I have tested this on my Win 7 64 bit. Marketplace works fine on my Vista 32 bit and xp 32 bit. You can try this for your Vista 64 bit too. You can find users reporting on this forum http://forums.zune.net/2/8/526815/ShowPost.aspx
The Fix
Turn off Automatically detect LAN settings in your IE.
Steps
- Open IE
- Click on Tools–> Internet Options
- Click on “Connections” Tab
- Click button “Lan Settings”
- Un-Check ” Automatically detect settings” (this is/was set by default in my Win 7 installation)
- Restart IE and Zune (if you had it open)
I found an article for slow saving of documents in SharePoint from Windows 7 client and this was the fix and thought these were related.
So go forth, and have a blazing fast marketplace, just the way it ought to be!
