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To: WestCoastGal
dumped the cache

Excuse my ignorance but what is cache?

52 posted on 03/03/2005 3:08:20 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown
Excuse my ignorance but what is cache?

What is a browser cache?

"Your browser saves a copy of every page you visit. Every word, every image. Why? Because it is always faster to load a file from your hard drive than it is to download it from the Internet, and rather than load pages over again when you hit the Back button or revisit a page, your computer checks to see if it already has a current copy of that page. If it does, it uses that instead of wasting time downloading it again."
56 posted on 03/03/2005 3:21:55 PM PST by holymoly ("A lot" is TWO words.)
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To: pbrown

'dumped the cache'

"Excuse my ignorance but what is cache?"

There is a lot of "stuff" your system normally hides from you, which is nonetheless on the drive, and may cause you grief.

WARNING- do not run the following software without carefully noting which boxes are checked in the "clean" column, because it defaults to remove your cookies, and some other useful files you may want to keep. Look carefully before running the first time.


CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system
http://www.ccleaner.com/


63 posted on 03/03/2005 3:40:17 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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