Temporary Internet Files and Cache?????

All this "cacheing" is, is storing temporary internet files, ie: sites youve been to, pictures from sites, blah blah blah. It stores them on your hard drive and when you visit a site youve been to, itll search through the temporary internet files and load it faster because you already have the general picture of the website on your computer. The problem with this though is that when there are alot of them, it cannot read them fast enough and it causes your browsing to become slower. Even sometimes crash. Its a good idea to empty these files about every other day, or depending upon how much you surf the web. To do so, goto start, then programs, accessories, system tools, and choose disk clean-up. Itll ask you which drive, just choose c:. Then itll give you some options. Make sure they are all checked and choose clean-up. This will remove them.
Hope this helps.

eagl - Browser cache means that your memory has stored up the Web sites you visit frequently so that these sites come forward, quickly, when you go to them. This cache memory also contains the user/password names in memory of your favorite sites so you automatically get in without going thru the verification process each time.
However, when emptying Temp Files users will often leave uneccessary Temp Files to avoid the risk of delelting Temp Files that have the user/password cookies, so that future re-verification of these favorite sites is not required.
However, I find that to unload all Temp Files that I may find superflourious I will, and have in the last few days, deleted a cookies Temp File that caused me to re-verify my user/password to a favorite Web site. However, this re-verfication was slight effort when compared to the advantage of unloading a whole bunch of Temp Files that take up space for no other reason than the user has visited that site(s) several times.
This also justifies the need to manually write down user names and passwords to favorite sites. Say in a 3X5 cardex.