Steps to Delete Temporary Internet Files

In this article, we will show you how to delete temporary internet files from your computer. These files reside in folders on your computer’s hard drive. It is a cache of web pages you have visited, and include images, and other media, such as audio and video files, cookies, scripting code, style sheets, or any other data you may open from various websites, such as spreadsheets, or PDF files.

Why Temporary Internet Files?

Your computer utilizes cache to help the performance of components such as hard drives and software applications as well. In the same manner, Internet browsers also utilize a cache to help speed up the connection to websites and online media that you frequent. Unfortunately, keeping this information can also lead to reduced performance and a security risk.

Over time these files can be corrupted by various elements which will reduce the speed for which they were intended to pick up from having a saved copy on your computer. Also, saved content can be a way for an opportunistic hacker or a virus, Trojan, or spyware to access your computer or private information. For this reason, it is important for you to be deleting temporary internet files on a regular basis.

As with most computer functions, this can be done manually or you can purchase specific software applications which would do this on a full or semi-automatic basis.

Steps to Delete Temporary Internet Files

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