What are Temporary Internet Files?
The Temporary Internet Files folder, also known as the “cache folder,” stores Web page content for more efficient surfing in the future. This process makes your surfing faster because your Web browser only has to load the new content of the page that you have previously visited. With a Charter High Speed® Internet account, you will notice little difference between loading a cached page and a page that has not been previously cached. Clearing the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder on a regular basis removes corrupted content, releases system resources, and frees up hard-drive space. Most Web browsers will also allow you to adjust the folder size to your particular preference.
By Scott Gardiner Temporary Internet Files, also known as the Browser cache are files that are stored on your computer by an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape. The purpose of these files is to speed up the loading of websites that you visit frequently by keeping copies of the web pages and graphics on your computer. Let’s say for example you visit Yahoo.com often. Instead of having to download the pages from the server each time the browser looks in your Temporary Internet Files and finds the graphics and web page files for Yahoo.com and loads them from your hard drive which is faster than loading from the server each time. Lets look at how to access the settings for your Temporary Internet Files in Internet Explorer. To access the settings for the Temporary Internet Files first you have to go to the menu at the top of your Internet Explorer Browser and click on Tools, then Internet Options as shown in the graphic. Once you do so that will bring up the Internet Opt
When you access the Internet using your Internet browser software, the pages that you view are downloaded and stored as temporary Internet files. These files or pages are saved on your computer, in a folder within your browser software. Internet browser software is designed to locate the requested information and display it to the user. Within each browser is an index or history of all the pages that you have viewed, as well as a copy of the page. If the user returns to the same page during the same session, the downloaded page is displayed from the temporary Internet files. This configuration provides faster access and reduces the unnecessary traffic when users are returning to the same page of information. These pages are stored on your computer and every Internet browser software has options to determine how long these files should be stored for. Check your settings in the preferences or settings option in your browser. Although we refer to the Internet as one unit, web pages are st
Temporary internet files are copies of all the web pages, pictures and other files you look at in your browser which are then stored on your hard disk. They’re there to save you from having to download a web page everytime you go back to it. So, if you click the ‘Back’ button page now the page will come pretty speedily from your disk rather than have to be downloaded from the WebWise server in London.
Temporary Internet Files are, in fact, the cache of the Internet Explorer. This means that when you load a web page with Internet Explorer, it is saved on your computer so that if you later decide to open the same page again, it will open a lot faster. Temporary Internet Files improve speed of web browsing and also make possible so called offline browsing, which gives you the ability to open the web pages from cache even when you are not connected to the Internet. Despite all these positive things about Temporary Internet Files, they have one big drawback: they compromise your privacy. Everyone with access to your computer can look into your Temporary Internet Files folder (location of this folder is discussed here) and see the sites that you have visited in the past. You can manually delete the contents of Temporary Internet Files folder (explained here) but this will not erase all traces of the pages because a special file called Index.dat is placed in this folder and it will still p
