Decrease Amount Of Space For Temporary Internet Files In IE 7
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By default, IE uses as much as 10% of your hard drive space for the Temporary Internet Files folder. In the past, when hard drives were smaller, it was necessary to allocate 10% of a drive for temporary Internet files because you could easily fill up your drive with other files and folder. Nowadays, you can buy larger hard drives, which means reserving 10% of the hard drive space for temporary Internet files may be unnecessary and a waste of space.
Within Internet Explorer 7 you can easily change the amount of space the Temporary Internet Files folder takes up. Within IE , click Internet Options from the Tools menu. Under Temporary Internet Files, click the Settings button. Use the slider in the Settings dialog box to increase or decrease the amount of drive space the temporary Internet files takes up and click OK.
[tags]Diana Huggins, Microsoft, Windows, IE 7, temp file, decrease space[/tags]
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Streaker
February 16th, 2007
at 8:09pm
You wrote… “Under Temporary Internet Files”. Where is this found, exactly? I see something called “Browsing history”, which seems to include temporary files. When I click on the “Settings” button I don’t see any slider to “increase or decrease the amount of drive space the temporary Internet files takes up”.
This is a “tip” that can’t be followed, using the instructions you posted here.