Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
(yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?

The spirit world wasn't able to divine what version of Internet Explorer
you have, but fortunately all recent versions look more or less the same
for the purposes of your question.

In Internet Options > General tab > look for the section entitled 'Check
for newer versions of stored pages'. That's where you'll find the
settings you need.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Pateh wrote:
> Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
> (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
> the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
> images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
> the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
> keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
> why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?

Sorry, I was hoping that the smoke signals I sent up would show the world
that I am running IE7. I checked where you suggested and I already have that
section checked to "check for newer versions, automatically", should this be
set to something else?

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> The spirit world wasn't able to divine what version of Internet Explorer
> you have, but fortunately all recent versions look more or less the same
> for the purposes of your question.
>
> In Internet Options > General tab > look for the section entitled 'Check
> for newer versions of stored pages'. That's where you'll find the
> settings you need.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> Pateh wrote:
> > Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
> > (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
> > the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
> > images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
> > the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
> > keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
> > why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?
>

Try 'Every visit to the page' or 'Every time you start Internet
Explorer'. This will give you more recent versions of web pages, but on
dial-up it'll take longer to see them.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Pateh wrote:
> Sorry, I was hoping that the smoke signals I sent up would show the world
> that I am running IE7. I checked where you suggested and I already have that
> section checked to "check for newer versions, automatically", should this be
> set to something else?
>
> "Leonard Grey" wrote:
>
>> The spirit world wasn't able to divine what version of Internet Explorer
>> you have, but fortunately all recent versions look more or less the same
>> for the purposes of your question.
>>
>> In Internet Options > General tab > look for the section entitled 'Check
>> for newer versions of stored pages'. That's where you'll find the
>> settings you need.
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>>
>> Pateh wrote:
>>> Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
>>> (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
>>> the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
>>> images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
>>> the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
>>> keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
>>> why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?

Thanks, I will try that. Just out of curiosity, I upgraded to IE7 about two
months ago, this did not happen on IE6 (or whatever the version was I
upgraded from), what was the old option? I never had this problem with past
versions.
peace

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> Try 'Every visit to the page' or 'Every time you start Internet
> Explorer'. This will give you more recent versions of web pages, but on
> dial-up it'll take longer to see them.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> Pateh wrote:
> > Sorry, I was hoping that the smoke signals I sent up would show the world
> > that I am running IE7. I checked where you suggested and I already have that
> > section checked to "check for newer versions, automatically", should this be
> > set to something else?
> >
> > "Leonard Grey" wrote:
> >
> >> The spirit world wasn't able to divine what version of Internet Explorer
> >> you have, but fortunately all recent versions look more or less the same
> >> for the purposes of your question.
> >>
> >> In Internet Options > General tab > look for the section entitled 'Check
> >> for newer versions of stored pages'. That's where you'll find the
> >> settings you need.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Leonard Grey
> >> Errare humanum est
> >>
> >> Pateh wrote:
> >>> Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
> >>> (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
> >>> the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
> >>> images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
> >>> the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
> >>> keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
> >>> why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?
>

"Leonard Grey" <Leonard@Grey.invalid> wrote in message
news:%23e6wuxwTIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> The spirit world wasn't able to divine what version of Internet Explorer
> you have, but fortunately all recent versions look more or less the same
> for the purposes of your question.

***Seeing that "all recent versions look more or less the same for the
purposes of your question" why don't you put a lid on your sarcasm and
simply answer the question?!

>
> In Internet Options > General tab > look for the section entitled 'Check
> for newer versions of stored pages'. That's where you'll find the settings
> you need.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> Pateh wrote:
>> Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and
>> disconnect (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and
>> try to revisit the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically
>> just find the old images and text in the history file (or wherever), no
>> it has to go through the whole process of downloading the whole thing
>> again. My history is set to keep for three days and my temp file size is
>> set at 50mb. Any thoughts on why it doesn't remember recently visited
>> pages?

"Pateh" <Pateh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9D469A3F-6AFC-47DA-A998-B4783EF9F348@microsoft.com...
> Whenever I visit a website, view/do whatever, close the window and disconnect
> (yes still on dial up), and then reconnect sometime later and try to revisit
> the already visited web site, it doesn't automatically just find the old
> images and text in the history file (or wherever), no it has to go through
> the whole process of downloading the whole thing again. My history is set to
> keep for three days and my temp file size is set at 50mb. Any thoughts on
> why it doesn't remember recently visited pages?


How do you know that it isn't? If the page is cached you should be able
to set Work Offline, load About:Blank over it, and then go back to it
without getting a prompt about connecting. If you can do that then you
could also set your cache-checking to Never and then you would not
observe any cache-checking requests but be aware that cache-checking
is not the same thing as "the whole process of downloading the whole thing again." ; )

Tip: you can watch the requests IE makes when rendering a page by using
Fiddler2. If you need help analysing a specific example, post a link.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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