When you visit a Web page, the text, images and other media are downloaded to your computer and stored temporarily on your hard drive or SSD in a file or folder known as a cache. This speeds up ...

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Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to delete ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>Was perusing my drive looking to clean things up. I find a folder under 'documents and settings' called "temporary internet files". I am using space monger to see them and can double ...

As you browse the Web, your computer stores temporary Internet files from each Web page you visit so that the next time you visit those same pages they will load ...

Every email attachment in Microsoft Outlook, when sent or downloaded, leaves temporary files on your Windows PC. These temp files get stuck in the temporary files folder. It is very important to ...

Sis has discovered her emails (she uses webmail and accesses through IE6 on WinXP) are being cached in the Temporary Internet Files folder.<BR><BR>The computer is partially shared with roommate and ...

A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.