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16 IT Essentials: PC Harware and Software Companion GuideFigure 12-9Internet Explorer Options■■■■■■■General: Used to set the home page, view and delete temporary Internet files, andchange the browser appearance settingsSecurity: Used to select Internet zones and trusted sitesPrivacy: Used for privacy settings to block third-party cookies and pop-upsContent: Used to block unwanted website content and set identification and personalinformationConnections: Used to set up the Internet Connection settings for the browserPrograms: Used to set up which programs Windows automatically uses for eachInternet serviceAdvanced: Used to enable and disable operation settings of the browserCaching, or storing, Internet files is a feature of the web browser that is used to speed theprocess of accessing previously visited websites. The file-storing tool in IE downloadscopies of the images or the HTML files of sites you have visited to the hard disk. Whenyou revisit the website, the site opens more quickly because the files are in the local diskcache and do not need to be downloaded again.Cached files in the web browser can become outdated or can be very large. These IE settingsallow you to control the size of the cache and indicate when the cache should berefreshed: