Q: When I delete temporary Internet files in Internet Explorer, it usually takes 10 to 20 seconds to delete them. I was told that they slow my computer down and should be deleted. What are temporary ...

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 quicker because the images and other ...

Q I am unable to right-click on an image on a Web page and save the .jpg or .bmp photo files as I used to do. A message comes up with the exclamation point in a yellow triangle reading, “This function ...

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 ...

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded ...

Q. In the Temporary Internet Files folder, I have a lot of cookies. I deleted them, but I don't know if this is harmful. Are cookies necessary, or do they just take up a lot of room? How do I program ...

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.