What are temporary Internet files for?

So that when you go back to a page it doesn't have to re-download everything. It can just use the one it already downloaded.

As you know, whenever you visit a Web Site via the Internet, a running record of visited sites are stored in various directories on your computer. The whole purpose of storing this information is to allow a faster loading of web pages if you re-visit a particular site again. This can be a useful feature, but these temporary files can cause problems if they accumulate over a long period of time. Also whenever you install programs on your computer, residuals of the programs installation files are also stored within a Temporary File Folder and can also accumulate over a long period of time

When you want to 'browse the internet' you are actually making a request to get the files from another computer.

This is where they go.

Every website you visit will send you the files you requested, via your browser which then uses the files in this folder to display the page you requested.

They're to speed up page rendering and web surfing.

It is a cache so you can access the internet faster.

when you download thats a option. is so when you finish using the temp; file it wont stay in the harddrive

For the internet to get accustomed with your surfing.

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