I like to set the disk cache in Opera and Firefox to 0, but can I do this in IE? it only lets me go down to 8 MB for disk cache.
Internet Options > History > Configurations (or something similar as I’m translating to English).
Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings, Amount of disk space to use, with the slider fully to the Left mine shows 1MB if I set it to 0MB it has a whinge and gives Please select a value between 1 and 51199.
This is with IE6 SP3, so looks like your version of IE suffers from associated bloat, though in the greater scheme of things 8MB isn’t much but it still means the cache will be used. I didn’t see a way to disable IE cache, but google finds lots of hits for this, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=disable+IE+cache.
http://support.packeteer.com/documentation/appcelera/help/2.0/test03.htm
I believe Pfipps is using Internet Explorer 7. As far as I know, Internet Option doesn’t allow users to set the cache below 8MB… I wonder if there are workarounds for it.
Well in the image the option using the Check for newer version of stored pages, ‘Every visit to the page’ should stop it going to the cache first, but it would still cache that page, which seems a totally redundant operation if you have checked ‘Every visit to the page’ the cache wouldn’t be used for its original purpose to speed page loading (before fast broadband came along), I guess IE/MS are steeped in the past.
Since I use dial-up this could in theory help speed my page loads, but I virtually never use IE.