CLEARING YOUR CACHE
WHAT IS A CACHE? WHY SHOULD I CLEAR MY CACHE? WHEN SHOULD I CLEAR MY CACHE? HOW DO I CLEAR MY CACHE? |
WHAT IS A CACHE?
Your "CACHE" is nothing more than an
area of RAM (Random Access Memory) in your WebTv box
that is assigned to hold temporary information that
is collected during the use of your unit. It is used
by your terminal to keep a record of the urls you
have visited along with logins you have used since
logging on to the net. It is where webpages you have
visited since logging on are assembled and displayed
in your browser. It is used to display your RECENTS
when you press your RECENT key and used everytime you
hit your back button to recall pages you have
previously visited. This is why you sometimes have
to RELOAD a page when backing up to it if the page
had been updated because you will first see the page
that was saved in your bowser. Hitting RELOAD will
reload the page from the server. As you can guess,
your cache must hold a great deal of information.
WHY SHOULD I CLEAR MY CACHE?
Because so much information must be
stored in your cache it can become full at times and
have to be cleared. This can happen frequently or
seldome depending on how you use your Webtv. Loading
large files such as audio and image files will fill
your cache faster then text files. How often you use
your back button can also effect how fast your cache
fills up. For example; if you are visiting a site
and have linked from the home page and wish to return
to it, by clicking a "Home" link on the page you are
at will cause your browser to load the home page
again using more memory, but if you use your back
button instead, then your bowser displays the page
you were at before from it's memory. If your cache
fills up you will not be able to load any more pages
and may not be able to navagate from the page you are
on.