Anyone know where I could get started with this?

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[bzcomputers]

Start here at this link: Step By Step Guide To Speed Up Your vb4 Or vb3

There is a lot of great info there. Almost everything on your list is actually covered there. Take your time going through it. You can get some great performance boosts by following this guide.

[Disco_Dave]

Cheers bzcomputers

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I'm not sure that this article works for 4.2.2....

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by Disco_Dave

I'm not sure that this article works for 4.2.2....

It does. I have most of the recommendations implemented on my 4.2.2.

Just Step1, the .htaccess rules tweaks, will fix many of the problems you posted and thats a simple copy and paste and its up and running in less than a minute.

The rest take more time to implement.

[Disco_Dave]

Cheers, That was the first one I added. I'll work through the rest now.....Thanks!