Temporary Internet Files What You Need to Know
Temporary Internet files are something of an enigma
in the way that they can make your computer faster or slower.
One of the first things we are told when
your Internet browser is running slow is “ Delete Your temporary
Internet Files “ if this is the case why does the browser insist
on creating them in the first place? If all they do is seem to
slow down our computers?
In all seriousness they do actually speed
up your Internet browsing
“and then overtime they slow it down again “
What are Internet temp files?
When you visit a website your Internet
browser downloads and stores common parts of the web page you’re
looking at to a temporary file directory on your computers hard
disk.
When you visit the same web page next time, it looks for
updates or changes to the page.
How do they speed up browsing?
For parts of the webpage that have not changed it uses the
parts it downloaded earlier to make the page load faster, and as
much of the page is actually loaded from your hard drive and not
from the website.
Pretty nifty huh!!
How do temp files slow down browsing?
The slowdown begins to happen when you have lots of
temporary Internet files stored on your computer which are
redundant. This happens as web pages you visit have been changed
or updated, and then your temp Internet files store grows and
grows to such an extent that you could literally have thousands
of files in the directory.
The size of the temp files is not really a
problem as Internet temp files are tiny, but the sheer volume of
the files means a real chore for your browser as it has to sift
through thousands of files to find the temp files it needs,
hence the slow down.
How to speed up your browser again?
The easiest way to speed up your browser is to simply delete
all the temporary Internet files, and then the whole process
will start again; it’s a good idea to have a clean out every
month or so to keep your browser running smoothly.
How To delete temp files from..
Internet Explorer – Tools Menu –
Internet Options and Delete Files
Firefox – Tools Menu – Clear recent
history – select everything in the Time range to clear – Click
the down arrow for details of what your about to clear – Make
sure Cache is selected and hit the Clear Now button
How to find your temporary internet
files
If you want to actually look at your
Internet temp files
Internet Explorer -
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files
Firefox – XP = C:\Documents and
Settings\**your profile name**\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\***.default\Cache
Firefox – Vista = C:\Users\\**your
profile name**\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\***.default\Cache
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