Hi Bob - This is for you, but if you think our Rainwater net users should have it, fine.... Annie ---------- Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 18:03:23 From: zapt To: "web browsers" <web browsers> Subject: cache by Mike Lafferty, computer columnist for Idaho Press Tribune, Nampa, Idaho: Keep this information with you and use it often. Clean out your cache. What's cache? It's a storage unit containing the address and a facsimile of every Web site you have visited. Every click on the Internet will deposit a copy of that site into the cache folder. It can fill up very fast. Individually, a Web site cache copy doesn't take up much room. Collectively, they consume a ton of space. I recently cleaned mine out and found 1,065 items in that folder. It had eaten up more than 5 megabytes on my hard drive. With my system, every byte counts and that 5 megs was something I couldn't afford to lose. So how do you clean it out? Simple. Assuming you are operating under a Windows system, access your main drive. This should be the place where your Web prgram is stored Just open the "My Computer" icon, then double click on your main drive. (Annie found hers through the little yellow file cabinet icon branched out from iexplore) In my case it's the C: drive. Find the program files folder. You should find the folder in that file which contains the browser program. Again, in my case it is Netscape. In that folder, you will find the user file. It will probably have your account name on it. My home account is with Micron and my user name there is mklaff. That is the name of the folder. In that folder you will find several subfolders - such as archive, netcast, news and cache. The latter is the one you want. Open the cache, highlight everything in there and hit delete. (Annie's wouldn't do that - she had to delete them one at a time. It took all day.) You may have to go into your trash can, on your desktop, and empty it in order to get the space back. What good is a cache? You can use it to find a Web site that you visited but can't remember the address. Parents can use it to find out where the kids have been surfing. (But then again, if the kids know how, they probably cleaned out the cache). So, the path to the cache is this >main drive --program files --broswer program --user name --cache folder. It's easy. Give it a try, you"ll save yourself some valuable hard drive space.