Clean simple and effective. It does the job it claims to.

I have to admit I was skeptical... I thought that I'd have to wait until they did some major updates for Joomla 1.6 before I could actually have an administration console that ran at any decent speed. I was wrong. This System plugin works wonders... pages in the admin console that once took an excess of 20 seconds to load now show up within less than 5... and if ever it slows down, all you need to do is click the "Update Gears" button that appears next to the Preview button in the top right. This speeds up all Administrative options, not just the core components.

One thing to note... some web hosts have BOTH PHP4 and PHP5 installed. In these cases they usually have PHP 4 setup as the default handler for php files. If this is the case, you can change it with your .htaccess file.

Here's what I had to add:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4