If you’re like most people, you probably have an Internet Explorer cache file. This is a file that stores the websites that you visit most often. The cache file helps you keep your computer running faster and helps you stay organized. If you don’t have an Internet Explorer cache file, there are a few ways to store your websites in your computer’s memory. One way is to create a temporary directory on your hard drive and store all of your websites in this directory. Another way is to use the Windows Media Player to store all of your websites in the same folder as your music and videos. The best way to store your Internet Explorer cache files is to use a program called Cache-X. Cache-X is available free from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmediaplayer/. Cache-X can help you keep all of your websites in one place so that they are easy to access when you need them.

Setup

There is no installation for you to worry about. Simply unzip the program zip file, place the two files inside (IECacheView.exe and IECacheView.chm) in their own folder in Program Files, and create a shortcut. Everything will be all ready to go.

Once you open IECacheView, this is what it will look like…

Scroll over to the right of the app and you get additional information and it’s easy to customize what columns are displayed based on your personal needs.

 

Menus

Time for a look at the menu system for IECacheView…here you can see the “File, Edit, & View Menus”. Each one provides a multitude of options that you can apply to folders, the cache, sub-folders, URL opening, saving, deleting, & copying, display (i.e. grid lines and columns), html reports, and more (very nice!).

The “Options and Help Menus”. Notice that you can specify the types of files that you would like to have displayed (very convenient!).

These are the options available in the “Right Click Menu”.

Conclusion

IECacheView makes a nice little utility to have around if you ever need a quick and easy way to dig into Internet Explorer’s cache.

Links

Download IECacheView (version 1.31)

Note: Download link is at the bottom of the page.

Works On: Windows 98 – Vista, Internet Explorer 6 – 8

Installed On: Windows Vista (32 bit), Service Pack 2