Temporary Internet Files / History / Cookies

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.

The drawback about temporary internet files is that, everyone with access to your computer can look into these files and see the sites that you have visited in the past. Moreover, it takes up a good amount of your hard drive space. It is always a good idea to delete these files periodically.

 

Deleting Temporary Internet Files

1. Start --> Control Panel --> Internet Options
   
   
   
   
2. Deleting Temporary Internet Files

   Cookies: click “Delete Cookies” and click “OK”
   Files: click “Delete Files” and click “OK”
   History: if you would like to delete the history of your visited site, click “Clear History” and click “Yes”
   Settings: click “Settings” and choose anywhere from 1MB to 100MB of storage space for Temp Files and click "OK".