Clean Up Those Internet Files!
The Windows operating system tries to help us out by making it faster for us to view a page of one of our favorite web sites. How does it do this? It keeps a copy of the web pages we've viewed recently in a folder of Temporary Internet Files. When you go to view a web site, Windows then only has to retrieve what has changed since it stored the page in the temporary file. It seems that Microsoft means well, but.
After a while - days become weeks, weeks turn into years - we have LOTS of temporary files taking up lots of space. And they become a hindrance to performance at some point. It's best to delete them from time to time, defragment your drive to tidy up that newly acquired free space, and start from scratch with a clean drive.
To delete your temporary files, follow these few steps:
- Quit Internet Explorer and any instances of Windows Explorer
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options
- On the General tab, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files.
- In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box, and then click OK.
- Click OK.
