What is Caching?

Caching is used in a wide variety of technology, both hardware and software.

If you want to change it hit the kick off the controls menu and launch Internet options.

How to Change How Long Internet Explorer Keeps a List of Sites You Have Visited

Then choose the prefs button.

Here you will see the amount of disk space IE uses to cache files.

While the default is probably OK for everyday browsing you may want to change it depending on your situation.

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Then press the OK button.

Well to do that, again open Internet options.

Then press the options button under the Browsing history section.

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At the very bottom of the dialog that opens you will see 3 buttons.

However, only two of them are important to us:

Go ahead and tap on view objects.

This will fire up the Downloaded Program Files folder in your Windows directory.

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The most common are ActiveX controls.

The other button opens up a folder with all the cached media files that IE has collected.

As you could see below they will mostly be images.

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To do this open Internet options.

Again press the prefs button.

Thats all there is to it.

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