Temporary internet files settings ?

[bonzo59]

Hello all,

We have a user running Windows XP SP1, with IE6 SP1 and she is trying
to manually increase the "Amount of disk space to use" to a setting
such as 500 MB or higher. She says that she will then check on it a
day or two later and it always resets itself to 124 MB. She is set up
as an Administrator on the PC. What is causing IE to reset back to
that lower value ?

Thanks in advance for any help -

 

[Edward]

I have not heard of this in IE6. It was a problem with IE5 and earlier.
However, 500MB is colossal. I would say about 10 times more than your user
is likely to need. On very large drives, IE gives up at a certain
percentage. I'm not sure but an MVP will probably pop in and add to this.

Having said all that, I sincerely recommend a much lower figure, certainly
below 100MB, as the larger percentage can also interfere with general system
efficiency, especially when trying to save graphics off web pages.

Hope this helps.

Ed

 

[Lem]

Hello all,

We have a user running Windows XP SP1, with IE6 SP1 and she is trying
to manually increase the "Amount of disk space to use" to a setting
such as 500 MB or higher. She says that she will then check on it a
day or two later and it always resets itself to 124 MB. She is set up
as an Administrator on the PC. What is causing IE to reset back to
that lower value ?

Thanks in advance for any help -

It seems pointless to have such a huge cache. I remember back in the day
when graphic content had just been added to "the Internet," connection
speed was slow (1200/2400 bps modems) and page caching was first
introduced. What a difference!. Today, however, it seems that many
(most?) web site designers assume that everyone has a high speed
connection and insert HTML coding that forces the browser to reload pages
from the server instead of using the cache.

Not only does a huge cache not help very much, if at all, it probably
hurts. Based on postings I've seen here from MS-MVP Alex Nichol, setting
TIF to a high value will likely lead to the inability to save graphics in
a format other than bmp. Alex usually recommends a setting of 50MB See,
e.g.,
news://news.microsoft.com/1m1nrv0l5oule0rb65ih2rvutk0uvut9vv%404ax.com

 

[Alex Nichol]

We have a user running Windows XP SP1, with IE6 SP1 and she is trying
to manually increase the "Amount of disk space to use" to a setting
such as 500 MB or higher. She says that she will then check on it a
day or two later and it always resets itself to 124 MB. She is set up
as an Administrator on the PC. What is causing IE to reset back to
that lower value ?

Temporary INternet files is for *temporary* caching of components from
the web, for use if you go back within a fairly short space of time.
For that purpose I regard even 120 MB as being excessive, and would
advise cutting it to say 50 - that can avoid troubles that arise if its
indexes get overloaded. That does not affect its ability to handle a
big file download, that gets cached there initially - though even so I
would advise doing such buy a right click and Save Target - or other
means to save it direct to disk in the first instance.