Caching Pages

To speed up surfing the web pages viewed are cached on the Browser that is your PC. These pages are stored in a folder called "Temporary Internet files". Some ISP servers (the machines you get connected to) also store pages.

How to can you minimize the caching of pages on your Browser (PC)

• Windows users of Internet Explorer (IE) v 5.5 service pack 1 and up In IE 5.5 with service pack for IE 5.5 installed, holding the control key down while clicking the Refresh button forces our caching server to check with the page's original site for a possible later page than the cache holds. Older versions of Internet Explorer for Windows cannot do so.

• For Internet Explorer version 6.#
  Via the Control Panel/Internet Options/General, click on the settings button under the title 'Temporary Internet files'. Under the title 'Check for newer versions of stored pages', ensure the option 'Every visit to the page' is chosen.

If simply clicking your "Refresh" or "Reload" button doesn't work, try this:

You may also clear out IE's stored cache:

• Windows users: from the View menu of the IE toolbar, click Internet Options, then click the General tab. In the Temporary Internet files area, click Delete Files, then click OK. Click OK to close Internet Options.

• Mac users: from the Edit menu of the IE toolbar, click Preferences, then Web browser. Click the Advanced button, then in the Cache section, click Empty now. No Macintosh version of Internet Explorer can force our caching server to verify whether the page is current or not.

• Netscape v. 4.+
  Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard (Option key on Macintosh) while clicking the Reload button on the Netscape toolbar. This will reload the entire page, capturing the most recent file. In newer versions of Netscape 4.x, doing so forces the caching server to verify whether the page is current or not. We do not know whether that is true of Netscape 6; it appears not to be true of the various Mozilla builds. You may also clear out Netscape's stored cache.

  To clear out Netscape's stored cache:

  • Windows users:
    1. Click the Edit menu; click Preferences
    2. Click the + sign to the left of Advanced
    3. Click Cache under Advanced
    4. Click the Clear Memory Cache button and the Clear Disk Cache button.

     

  • Mac users: The steps are the same as above, except that there is a Disclosure triangle rather than a + to the left of Advanced, and you may not need to click it to reveal the Cache item. Also the single button to click is Clear Disk Cache Now.

   

  Web servers also cache content and if the problem you are having 

   is with the server caching, contact the Web hosting provider and request

  their refresh policy .

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