To reduce the amount of time you have to spend waiting to view Web pages, Internet Explorer (IE) stores many of the Web pages and graphics you view in the Temporary Internet Files folder on your hard drive. The benefit of storing information in the Temporary Internet Files folder is that when you revisit a Web site, IE displays the Web page using information stored within this folder instead of retrieving the information from the Internet.

The downside of this, though, is that the Temporary Internet Files folder can grow rather large and, as a result, can consume a large amount of hard drive space. If you have sufficient hard drive space, this may not be an issue. However, if your system is running low on hard drive space, you can empty the contents of the folder. Open IE’s Tools menu and select Delete Browsing History. Click the Delete Files button beside Temporary Internet Files and click OK.

[tags]Temporary Internet Files Folder, empty temp folder, Internet Explorer 7, IE 7[/tags]