Clearing your cache:

1. What is a cache?

Your web browser uses some of the disk space on your computer to store web pages and graphics as you browse the web. The reason being that as you browse a particular site you are often downloading the same web pages and graphics over and over again. Storing these often used files and recovering them from memory is much faster than downloading them from the Internet.

2. Where can you find your cache settings?

In order to change your cache settings you first have to FIND the control panel for those settings. The control panel is found in different places pending on what browser and or platform you are using (PC / Mac).

• Netscape Navigator for Windows 95/98 ver 4
• Netscape Navigator for Macintosh ver 4
• Internet Explorer for Windows 95/98 ver 4/5
• Internet Explorer for Windows 95/98 AOL

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Netscape Navigator for Macintosh ver 4
In Netscape Navigator for Mac version 4.0 and later on your top menu bar go to the "Edit" menu. As you select this item you should see several menu items, the bottom most of these should say "Preferences..." Select "Preferences...". After you have selected "Preferences" you should see something like the figure on the right. If you do not see this control panel refer to the paragraph above. In the left hand column, labeled "Category:", scroll down to the item labeled "Advanced", click on the arrow icon to the left of the word "advanced" to reveal the sub-menu items. The sub-menu items under "advanced" are 'Cache", "Proxies", and "Smart Update". Click on "Cache". You should now see a menu like the figure below. There is a button on the right side of the menu labeled "Clear Disk Cache Now". Click on the button labeled "Clear Disk Cache Now" to clear your browser's disk cache.

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Internet Explorer for Windows 95/98 ver 4/5
In order to change your cache settings you first have to find the dialog box for those settings. In Internet Explorer for Windows version 4.x on your top menu bar go to the "View" menu. As you select this item you should see several menu items, the bottom most of these should say "Internet Options" ( see the figure on the right.) Select "Internet Options". After you have selected "Internet options" you should see something like the figure on the right. If you do not see this control panel refer to the paragraph above. In the middle of the "Internet options" control panel you should see and item labeled "Temporary Internet Files". "Temporary Internet Files" is what Microsoft calls your cache. Under "Temporary Internet Files" there are two buttons: one is labeled "Delete Files" and the other is labeled "Settings". By pressing the button labeled "Delete Files" you should bring up a dialog box which ask you if you want to delete all file in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Press the button labeled "OK". This procedure has cleared your temporary Internet files which we refer to as "Clearing your cache."

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Internet Explorer for Windows 95/98 AOL

What most AOL users don't realize is that AOL has no browser. Instead, it just uses Microsoft Internet Explorer that is part of Windows. So, when you want to chance AOL's cache settings, you are really just using AOL to access your Internet Explorer cache settings. The first step in doing this is to use the "My AOL" button at the top of your AOL application. This will bring up the your "My AOL" menu. In your "My AOL" menu, you should see several menu items, one of which is the "Preferences" item. ( See the figure on the right.) Select "Preferences".The "Preferences" dialog now appears with all sorts of colorful icons. To get to your cache settings, choose "WWW".

After you have selected "Preferences" you should see something like the figure on the right. If you do not see this control panel refer to the paragraph above. In the middle of the "Internet options" control panel you should see and item labeled "Temporary Internet Files". "Temporary Internet Files" is what Microsoft calls your cache. Under "Temporary Internet Files" there are two buttons: one is labeled "Delete Files" and the other is labeled "Settings". By pressing the button labeled "Delete Files" you should bring up a dialog box which ask you if you want to delete all file in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Press the button labeled "OK". This procedure has cleared your temporary Internet files which we refer to as "Clearing your cache.

"You should still have the "Internet options" control panel open. In the middle of the "Internet options" control panel you should see and item labeled "Temporary Internet Files". "Temporary Internet Files" is what Microsoft calls your cache. Under "Temporary Internet Files" there are two buttons; one is labeled "Delete Files" and the other is labeled "Settings". By pressing the button labeled "Settings" you should see a control panel labeled "Settings"( see the figure on the right.) The first item in the settings control panel says "Check for newer versions of stored pages:" and allows you to select between three items. These are:

Every visit to the page
Every time you start Internet Explorer
Never.
Select "Every visit to the page." The reason that we recommend this setting is to make sure you are playing the very latest version of our games or to make sure that your levels and scores are updated as you play.

The second section of the settings control panel is labeled "Temporary Internet files folder" and it has a slider type control ( see the figure on the right.) That allows you to set the amount of hard disk space that you wish to allocate to your Temporary Internet files or cache. It is hard to recommend an exact value that you should set your disk cache to. We do recommend a value of at least 10MB. If someone suggests, or you suspect that you are having a problem due to disk cache size, try doubling your previous settings.

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