the temp internet files/hist settings box says to use 8-1024mb. reccomended50-1024 mine is 1024should i reduc?

Answer 1

What that setting does is determine how much hard drive space Windows sets aside for holding temporary Internet files. The first number is the minimum, where it starts the file each time you start your PC. The second is the maximum, the largest the file can get. Once the max is reached, it will delete the oldest files to make room for new ones.

The temp files are a hold over from the days of dial up when it literally took 15 minutes to open a web page. Anytime you did a "back", it could load the file from the temp files rather then having to re-download from the Internet.

Today with high speed connections, you normally do not need to have any temp internet files stored. So you can set that number as low as possible. But the amount of space being used (1024mb - or 1 Gig) is so small on today's hard drives, you do not gain enough space to mention if you reduce it.

If your Internet is work fine, leave it alone. You will not gain anything by resetting it. Increasing will probably not speed up your computer, and decreasing it will not save enough space to be wirth mentioning. So I would just leave it however it is set and look for other places to tweak the computer where it might actually make a difference.

Answer 2

1024 is a GB of space.
unless you visit some very slow loading pages on a regular basis and want them to load a tiny bit faster, i'd reduce it to 256MB or thereabouts.

Answer 3

I have mine set to 150mb and someone told me that was too high. You can try experimenting, but 1gb does seem to be a bit over-the-top.