Internet Explorer - Deleting Temporary Internet Files
This is what you do:
1. run Internet Explorer.
2. click 'Tools' menu then click 'Internet Options'.
3. ensure the 'General' tab is selected then click the 'Delete Files' button.
4. ensure the 'Delete All Offline Content' option is on, then click OK.
5. if you also want to get rid of your cookies, click the 'Delete Cookies'
button.
You may still have a 'Content.IE5' sub-folder with a pile of files (some of
them may be invisible to Windows Explorer) lurking in those sub-folders.
To get rid of these remaining files:
1. manually delete the 'Content.IE5' sub-folder using Windows Explorer.
When you next launch Internet Explorer, it will rebuild the sub-folders, but
this time they'll be empty.
Note
While you can safely delete the entire contents of Temporary Internet Files, by
doing so you'll delete all your cookies. With your cookies gone, the next time
you visit any site requiring password entry or which normally stores
information about you, you'll have to re-enter your password.
David Bleasdale, 9/11/01 |