Cleaning up the Browser's Cache of
Netscape and Internet Explorer

What is the Internet Cache?

Your Internet cache is in the Temporary Internet Files folder on your hard disk.
This is where Web pages and files (such as graphics) are stored as you view them.
This speeds up the display of pages you frequently visit or have already seen,
because it is faster to open them from your hard disk than from the Web.
The downside of this is that it takes up space on your hard disk, and it can
sometime cause problems in loading a page that you have visited many times before.

Instructions for Internet Explorer
Instructions for Netscape

Cleaning Internet Explorer's Cache

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Within the top menu of the browser window, click on Tools.
3. In the Tools menu, select Internet Options.
4. In the Internet Options screen, the first screen to appear
   is the General screen.  Towards the middle of the General screen,
   temporary Internet Files section, click on the "Delete Files" button.
5. Another screen will appear that will ask you if you want to
   "Delete all files in the temporary Internet files"? and "Delete all offline content",
   select the checkbox and the click the "Yes" button. 
6. Once the hourglass disappears, click OK at the bottom of the
   Internet Properties window. 
7. Close Internet Explorer to refresh the program.  You are now ready
   to re-open Internet Explorer and browse the Internet.

Cleaning Netscape's Cache

1. Open the Netscape browser program.
2. Go to the Edit menu (at the top of the Netscape window) and
   select Preferences.
3. In the Preferences window, Category menu (left-hand side of
   the window), double-click on Advanced.  In the sub-menu of
   the Advanced option, click once on Cache. 
4. In the Cache screen, click on the Clear Memory Cache button.
   Another screen will appear indicating "This will remove all of the
   files currently in your memory cache. Continue?" , click OK.
5. After the hourglass disappears, you will be lead back to the Cache
   screen. Click on the Clear Disk Cache button. Another screen
   will appear indicating "This will remove all of the files currently
   in your disk cache. Continue?", click OK.
6. Once the hourglass disappears, click OK at the bottom of the
   Preferences window, or click the "x" in the top right hand
   corner of the window to close the settings menu.
7. Close Netscape to refresh the program.  You are now ready to
   re-open Netscape and browse the Internet.