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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Clearing the cache (temporary internet files) in Internet Explorer 6.

 

In Internet Explorer click on the Tools Menu

The bottom item in the menu should be “Internet Options”, click on it.

Click on the “Delete Files” button in the middle of the window.

When this window appears click OK. You can put a tick in the box if you want to, but it won’t affect what it needs to do for the classroom.

Leave the mouse pointer over the Internet Options window. If the pointer shows as an egg timer the computer is still clearing the cache. Once it goes back to the arrow pointer you can click OK to close the window.

Now close Internet Explorer and restart it to finish the process.

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Clearing the cache (temporary internet files) in Internet Explorer 7.

In Internet Explorer click on the Tools Menu on the right hand side.

The bottom item in the menu should be “Internet Options”, click on it.

Click on the “Delete…” button in the middle of the window.

When this window appears click on the top button “Delete files…”. This will remove the temporary files but leave your history and stored passwords intact.

When this pop-up appears click on yes. You can put a tick in the box before clicking yes but it will take longer to clear the files.

You’ll get an animation to show when the files have been cleared. Once they have click OK to close the Internet Options window.

Now close Internet Explorer and restart it to finish the process.

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Clearing the cache (temporary internet files) in Mozilla Firefox

Click on the Tools menu in Firefox.

Click on Clear Private Data

Ensure there is a tick in the Cache box and the Authenticated Sessions box.

Click on the Clear Private Data Now button.

The window will disappear. Now close Firefox and restart it to finish the process.

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