If you spend even a small amount of time browsing the Internet, your hard disk will very quickly fill-up with information about what sites you have visited recently and details of any “cookies” that have been placed on your PC whilst browsing.

This information can often take up significant space on your PC hard disk, even over a short period of time.  The following is some guidance on how to manage this information:

In CONTROL PANEL, select the INTERNET OPTIONS icon. 

On the GENERAL tab, look for the TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES section and hit DELETE FILES.  This action deletes all the temporary information stored on your PC (stored web pages that you have visited).

Hit DELETE COOKIES – but ONLY if you want to delete all cookies – doing this MAY cause you problems when visiting some sites again.

The SETTINGS tab lets you move the folder where this information is kept, view the files and set the amount of disk space used to store this information.

Finally, in the HISTORY section, you can delete the record of all web addresses previously visited, and set how many days this history is maintained, before being automatically deleted.