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by vhall

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i have web pages and sites in my temporary internet files . It shows every site an page I have accessed. I want ot permanently them. Will thid affect the operation of my p/c? and how would I actually go about removng these files?

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by thechas

As far as the effect on your PC, some sites that you visit regularily may load a little bit slower when you empty the Internet Cache files.

The simplist way to delete these files is from Tools / Internet Options in IE, or from Control Panel.

On the general tab, just click on clear files.

There used to be a setting to clear tempory internet files on exit, but I'm not seeing it at this moment (it's late).

There are also utilities that you can download and install to clean out the files for you.

Or, you can just delete them from Windows Explorer.

Chas

by santoshjdevadiga

as far as deleting the temporary folders contents wont matter much.u can surely delte the files by right clicking the explorer icon and clicking on the option delete offline contents.In fact this may improve the speed of browsing

by pocono

Also, depending on the OS you are using, you can use the Disk Cleanup feature in windows. Double click on my computer and then right click on the C drive , and select properties...Peace

by joe

In your browser the /TOOLS/ Internet Options/advanced tab, scroll down to EMPTY TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES when browser closes.

by lizzy

The first two answers are correct. If you're worried about someone seeing where you've been, there may be nothing you can do about that. If you access the internet through a firewall at work, they may cache all sites accessed by users at the firewall and you will have no access to that. You should also clear your history on your pc--Tools, Internet Options, General tab, press the Clear History button. The Advanced tab has the Check Box setting to "Empty Temporary Internet Files on Exit." If you are worried about being monitored, in addition to the cached files on the firewall, there could also be a server end program running that records all keystrokes made by users or a watcher program that lets admins watch your desktop as though they're there, so it's best not to mess around at work if you're not the admin.
Hope this helps.

by adembo

To make it eaven easier, you can have IE automatically delete the temporary internet files for you every time you close IE. To do this you need to check the box in Tools-Internet options-Click advanced tab-and scroll down to almost the bottom. You will see the checkbox empty temporary internet files when browser is closed.

by b_pope

As mentioned go into Internet options & delete from there. You'll also need to go right into the temporary folder & manually delete the cookies.
This will increase yuor computers performance but only untill you've filled it again by surfing so do it regularly.

There are also hidden folders within your Temporary internet files folder which will still contain your browsing details, these you need a third party program to delete unless your good with Dos. The two best are Evidence Eliminator &Window Washer, a Google search will find both.

The main reason to delete these folders is the fact they take up hard drive space. I free up 50 to 100MB of space every week using Evidence Eliminator, the majority of which is from these hidden folders.

by b_pope

There's ongoing discussions regarding these folders, such as Microsoft spying, but I don't want to get into that. I use EE solely for the fact it cleans all the garbage off my system Microsoft never gave you the ability to do, for whatever reasons. You want to see a performance improvement use one of these to programs, & feel secure nobody can see where you've been.

by jamesdev

You will definitely want to delete them off your hard drive as well. c:\windows\temporary internet files and all files within those subdirectories, or people will still see the files. The delete files within the internet options menu do not alwaysdelete these files, and it won't clear the history either.

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