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Temporary Internet Files or Internet cashe
What are Temporary Internet Files?Temporary Internet Files are, in fact, the cache of the Internet Explorer. This means that when you load a web page with Internet Explorer, it is saved on your computer so that if you later decide to open the same page again, it will open a lot faster. Temporary Internet Files improve speed of web browsing and also make possible so called offline browsing, which gives you the ability to open the web pages from cache even when you are not connected to the Internet...
Article added: 2008-01-17 16:16:27 Article Views Rating: 244
Delete cookies
What are cookies?The cookies are small pieces of information text that are created by Web sites that you are visiting and are sent to your browser Internet Explorer along with the Web pages that you are viewing. Some of these cookies are saved to your hard disk and when you visit again the Web site that generated them your browser sends these cookies back to this Web site.The purpose of the cookies is one of the following things: - To notify the Web site that you visited it in the past. This information...
Article added: 2008-01-17 16:07:42 Article Views Rating: 248
Delete History Files
What is history and why is it dangerous?Your computer well, actually the programs on your computer track and save many of your actions. For example Windows remembers which programs you have started, Internet Explorer remembers which websites you have visited, Google Toolbar remembers the words that you have searched for, and so on. These traces of your computer activity are commonly known as history. Contrary to the popular belief that this is done in order to harm you as part of some sort of worldwide...
Article added: 2008-01-17 15:59:29 Article Views Rating: 334
Delete index.dat files
What are Index.dat files?Index.dat files are used by Internet Explorer and Windows to store history, Internet cache, cookies, UserData records and other information about what you have done in Internet or in your PC. Although some of their functions are useful, they are dangerous privacy threat - any person with even little knowledge about index.dat files locations and structure can see history of almost all of your computer activities. Index.dat files are not the only privacy threat but they are the...
Article added: 2008-01-17 15:48:04 Article Views Rating: 260
