Temporary Internet File Content

How do I delete temporary Internet file content?

Why Delete Temporary Internet File Content?

Temporary Internet File content helps your Internet browser to load webpages faster. The information that was not changed on a previously viewed web page will be loaded from your temporary Internet file content. There are some problems with having this content stored on your computer.

The temporary Internet file content may contain personal information from personal sites. It records login site information, form information, visited site history, search results and search terms, credit card information, and much more. Deleting temporary Internet content is important to remove stored personal information. Manually removing temporary Internet content will remove most of the information that is stored on the computer. Software like SecureClean will remove all of the temporary Internet file content stored on your computer. SecureClean is the best software package to remove temporary Internet file content.

Delete Temporary Internet File Content - Steps

You can manually delete temporary Internet file content in the Windows Control Panel or in Internet Explorer.

Delete Temporary Internet File Content - Control Panel:

1. Quit Internet Explorer and quit any instances of Windows Explorer.
   
   
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options.
   
   
3. On the General tab, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files.
   
   
4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box, and then click OK.
   
   
5. Click OK.
   
   

Delete Temporary Internet File Content - Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
   
   
2. Click on the Tools menu.
   
   
3. On the bottom of the menu select Internet Options.
   
   
4. In the new window click on the General tab.
   
   
5. There are two buttons in this tab, Delete Cookies and Delete Files.
   
   
6. Click each one individually.
   
   
7. It may take a few minutes for the temporary files to be deleted.
   
   

Temporary Internet File Content Corruption

Temporary Internet file content can get corrupted. You can tell if your temporary Internet file content is corrupted if a web page only loads by pressing the "hard refresh" key (F5). Deleting these files will remove corrupted content and load the web page. The index.dat file may also cause this problem if the file is corrupted too. The best way to remove the index.dat file is with software.