Browser Cache Switch for Internet Explorer Introduction Jim Fox
One way Internet Explorer speeds up web page display by using a browser cache. This is nothing more than a folder on your drive where web pages and graphics are stored as viewed. Then and if they are revisited, Internet Explorer can open them from disk instead of from the Web.
Internet Explorer does have the ability to adjust the size of this cache and to specify its location on your hard drive, but that's about it. For each hour of surfing the net there may be several hundred files added to this cache. It is not uncommon for it to consume up to 50 megs or more on your hard drive. All these temporary internet files go into one folder and Internet Explorer offers no way to organize this information. Another problem is that if you do make any adjustments to your cache, the old and new caches are automatically deleted and you start over again from scratch, dumping any files that may have been in your cache.
Wolfgang Baudish recognized this shortcoming and developed a unique little program called Browser Cache Switch. With it you can create multiple caches and switch between them with ease.
Why would you even want to have multiple caches? Several reasons...
Use different caches for different web content types. One for news web sites and another cache while browsing for shareware.
Different caches for different time periods. Changing caches each week makes it easier when trying to find and view a web page offline.
Using multiple caches decreases the size of the current cache, speeding up browsing.
Browser Cache Switch contains several nice features:
Create new sub-caches in a default browser cache.
Specify which drive to install the browser cache on.
Set a maximum size for each cache individually.
Switch between caches for easy off-line browsing. This takes just seconds and does not require a system reboot.
Lets the user specify individual names for all caches, allowing them to be labeled according to content.
