4.0gb of temporary internet files

[RabidDog]

4.0gb of temporary internet files? I cant seem to get rid of these files. I have 38000 files. I have internet options set at 5 days history and 1226mb as space used. Why is it ignoring the limit I have set. ALso when I check the folder it says there are 38000 files yet the files shown are a few hundred at most. I am down to 700mb ??free space and shrinking..

DOH homer moment!!! delete internet files option!!!

[808smokey]

Just because you have your history set to 4 days doesn't mean that it always eletes those files after the 4 days has passed. You might have to manually delete them or use the disk clean up tool in windows. What OS do you have??

[Prof-x]

You need to delete em manually from your c:\ > documets and settings > username \ local settings \ temp internet files


Cntrl + a > shift + delete


If your on broadband set temp iNet files to 1 or 0 in other programs. Broadband is fast enough to get the page directly, and in 1 session pages will be loaded into memory and not stored on your disk which is 10times slower than memory.
I never use disk caching its so slow and decreases my browsing speed, i prefer to make use of my broadbands speed and isp's proxy servers. Plus its a waste of space too.

Just another MS programming incompitance, they should take a good hard look at linux with its memory caching.

[RabidDog]

Files are gone now .. but actually what I tried to do was to delete them manually ..this was what failed. When I took the delete internet files option it did get rid of all 37000 files!! (4.3gb). OS xp and broadband.