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Howard Tate
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Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 May 2007 5:18 am |
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| I cleared the history trying to speed up my connection and I expected to find new history in the drop down window of sites I've been to since, but it's blank. Anyone have ideas about this. Should I reset INTERNET options? I hate to lose my security settings. |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 21 May 2007 5:49 am
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First the History, which is sites you have visited, has nothing to do with your connection or speed.
Clearing the Temporary Internet files MAY have a very slight affect on browsing until you get the temporary files back for a site but that's all on that too.
There is an option for how many days to keep history, did you change that too? and maybe the reason there is nothing in the history. Also, if you haven't manually entered a URL you won't see any recently visited URL's.
There can be many reasons why the browsing or internet is slow, but clearing the browser's cache is not one of them. Your security software could be slowing down apparent internet speed, the link to the ISP could be the culprit, the ISP's link(s) to the web could be a culprit, the web or specific sites can be an issue, etc. If you are on a dial-up link, the telco line can be a problem, the "inside wiring" (in the house and on the customer side of the demarc point) can be an issue, a cordless phone can be an issue, etc. |
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Jon Moen
From:
Canada
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Posted 21 May 2007 5:53 am
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In IE7
Go to Tools/Internet Options/
On the General tab, under Browsing History, Click Settings,
At the bottom under History, make sure the number of days to keep history is not set to 0.
IE6 and every other Browser will have a similar setting |
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 May 2007 7:38 am
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| Thanks for the replies. I left the setting at five days, but I have not entered any urls manually, that may be the reason. I normally don't do that. I'm on satellite broadband, not particularly slow, I've just read that you should empty the cache occasionally. Guess I'll leave it alone after this. |
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 21 May 2007 10:55 am
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When using any broadband internet service you have virtually nothing to gain from a large cache for temporary internet files. Your higher download speed allows images, scripts and new text to load much faster than dialup ISPs can provide. Having a large cache size on a broadband only contributes to bloat. I have my Internet Explorer options set to empty the Temporary Internet Files every time I close the browser. I manually empty the internet cache on Firefox every so often, while keeping the cache size very small. I am on 1.3 megs downstream ADSL.
When I was on dialup I used a 25 MB cache for Internet Explorer's Temporary Internet Files. This was useful when revisiting a website whose images and support files were stored in the cache. Web accelerators also keep a cache of the images, text and support files and load the from cache while checking to see if the text has changed since the last visit. Loading items from onboard cache speeds up the rendering time of static websites, but don't do much for those with constantly changing text and images.
WARNING: Geek Stuff Follows!
One benefit of browser cache is passed on to the websites you visit. The first time you visit a website your browser must use HTTP requests to download every image, every css file, every JavaScript file, any includes, plus the HTML codes on the page, plus all of the text on that page. If you refresh the page your browser will reload all of those elements from it's cache, instead of downloading them from the server again. This takes the load off the server, as it only has to serve new content (if any exists), not all images and code stuff. Too many HTTP requests to a server can bring a website to it's knees, so to speak, possibly slowing the entire HTTP server to a crawl, affecting all of the other websites on that hosted server.
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