Information Technology

Clearing Your Browser Cache

Almost all browsers keep a local copy of web pages and other related items on your hard drive (cache file) to make reloading previously visited pages from the internet much faster. The drawback to this is, when there are new pages or changes to a page on the site your computer will go to the cache first to recall the page. So, you might be viewing a page that has many changes on it since your last visit, but you're still looking at the old page version from you cache.

By clearing your cache and setting it to check for newer page versions on each visit, not only will you see the most recent pages updated on that site, but you will free up some memory and your computer will run must faster and smoother while surfing the internet.

Netscape 4.0 and Later

1. Open your browser to the home page
2. Click on "Edit" on top tool bar
3. Select "Preferences"
4. Click on "+" to the left of the "Advanced" category.
1. The "+" will make the words; cache, proxies and disk space appear
5. Click on "Cache" Your cache window will now appear
6. Click on "Clear Disk Cache" button
7. The "Disk Cache" window will now appear
1. If you want your browser to automatically check for newer page versions, click the "Every Time" option where it asks this
8. Click "OK" at bottom of window
9. At home page, click on "Reload" in top toolbar

*CLEARING DISK CACHE* IS NOW COMPLETED

Explorer 4.0 and Later

1. Open your browser to home page
2. Click on the "Tools" on top tool bar
3. Select "Internet Options"
4. Click on "General" tab on top
5. Look in the section that says "Temporary Internet Files"
6. Click on "Delete Files" button. You will be asked for a confirmation, and say "OK"
7. "Temporary Internet Files" are now cleared
1. If you want your browser to automatically check for newer page versions, click the "Settings" button and choose "Every Visit to the Page"
8. Click on "OK" at bottom and the Options window will re-appear
9. Click on "OK" at the bottom of Options window
10. The window will close and your cache is now cleared
11. Click on "Refresh" button in top toolbar

*CLEARING DISK CACHE* IS NOW COMPLETED