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How to Delete Temporary Internet Files

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Temporary Internet Files What are Temporary Internet Files?
Temporary Internet Files is a directory on Microsoft Windows computer systems. The directory is used by Internet Explorer to cache pages on websites visited by the user. This allows such websites to load more quickly the next time they are visited.

To delete Temporary Internet Files manually, do the following things:

1.Start Internet Explorer and click Tools menu, then select Internet Options... from this menu. This will open the Internet Options window.

2.Click General tab and then find in the section Temporary Internet Files the button Delete Files... and click it. A new dialog box opens.

3.In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box if you want to delete all Web page content that you have made available offline.

4.Click OK to delete the files. Note that if you are doing this for the first time, the deleting can take a large amount of time, so be patient.

WARNING! This will most probably delete all visible items in the Temporary Internet Files folder (except cookies) but a number of invisible traces may remain in the index.dat files. The only way to be sure that you are getting rid of all traces for good is the usage of specialized privacy protection program like PC Washer.

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