How to Delete Temporary Internet Files

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Choose Tools➪Internet Options.

3. On the General tab of the resulting Internet Options dialog box, click the Delete button in the Browsing History section.

4. In the resulting Delete Browsing History dialog box,, click the Delete Files button in the Temporary Internet Files section.

5. A confirmation message asks whether you want to delete the files. Click Yes. Click Close and then click OK to close the open dialog boxes.

Temporary Internet files can be deleted when you run Disk Cleanup (see that task earlier in this chapter), but the process that I describe here allows you to delete them without having to make choices about deleting other files on your system.

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