What are Temporary Internet Files?

Q. What are Temporary Internet Files?

A. Temporary Internet Files are created and stored on your computers hard drive each time you access a website on the Internet. The storage of these files helps to facilitate and speed up the browsing experience by accessing the files of sites you've previously visited from a central location on the hard drive (Temporary Internet Files Folder) rather than having to reprocess these files on the web each time you return to the same site. This feature can improve network performance but if the files are left unattended they can drastically slow down your browsing experience and take up unnecessary hard drive space if you do not delete them from time to time.