Clear Your Cache!

Often referred to as the Cache, the Temporary Internet Files folder contains a kind of travel record of the items you have seen, heard, or downloaded from the Web, including images, sounds, Web pages, even cookies. Typically these items are stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Storing these files in your cache can make browsing the Web faster because it usually takes your computer less time to display a Web page when it can call up some of the page's elements or even the entire page from your local Temporary Internet Files folder.

Clearing Your Browser's Cache:

All those files stored in your cache take up space, so from time to time; you may want to clear out the files stored in your cache to free up some space on your computer. This is called clearing the cache.

More Speed or More Room? But at what cost!

If you tend to go online a lot and have ample space on your computer, you might want to increase the size of your Temporary Internet Files folder. Why? Because Internet Explorer 6 will read already-viewed files from the cache first rather than take the time to download the same page from the Web, thus saving you time and money.

However from a web developer’s point of view this sometimes is a bit of a problem. Why? For a simple reason, the client can not view the updated changes.

Hence a simple tip, if at all you’re client is viewing his website for Internet Explorer 6 you may want to illustrate this: 

Keep the 'Ctrl' button on your keyboard pressed while you hit 'Refresh' on your IE bar. This calls the updated page from the server and not the Cache. Well and lets say avoid the miscommunication and those email that can go back and forth as to ‘why aren’t the change done yet’.