When you use a web browser (Internet Explorer, Opera etc) and view web pages these files are automatically saved on your computer. These are known as browser cache or temporary internet files.
Each browser users a different location on your computer to save its cache, and each browser has its own way of clearing this cache. If these arent cleaned out regularly they can consume a large amount of space on your computer!
Below we show you a step by step method for cleaning browsers, Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox.
Internet Explorer
The first step in clearing the cache/temporary internet files for Internet Explorer is to open a browser window, and select Tools from the top menu and then select Internet Options (last item).
Once this window loads up, we are looking for the Delete Files button. Click this button then tick the box Delete all offline content, then click Ok. This can take a while to process if there is a lot of files to delete. Once done, click Ok and close the control panel window.
Opera
To clean the cache in Opera open the browser then select Tools from the top menu, and go down to Preferences. On the left hand side...