How to stop IE WebCache?

Just as long as you use IE is also a web cache. Stop using IE and no longer have any web caches.
If You say there is 16MB, it is so little, why it disturb You? Look how much Firefox or Chrome have. And it doesn't disturb You at all?

 

You cannot remove it, You can only hide. And it doesn't have no matter, if You use or not but there are Windows components that uses in background.

 

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@TairikuOkami Will test on 8.1 when my download queue finishes.

 

I followed these instructions and it didn't work on my Win-10 system.
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"The main culprit happens to be a task bundled with Windows called “CacheTask“. To find this, open Task Scheduler from Administrative Tools, navigate to Microsoft > Windows > Wininet. This should be the only task listed there."
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@TairikuOkami - your tip is a good one, but I'd rather have the files available for whatever program might need it to be present. What I do is to delete the entire directory with a batch file that I run in the morning when I start up my computer first thing that cleans up a lot of junk that Windows created the previous day.

It's only a couple of lines in the batch file that get rid of the directory and all of the files;

Spoiler: Delete the WebCache Directory

taskkill /F /IM dllhost.exe
rd "C:\Users\Al\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache" /s /q

If a Windows process needs something in the WebCache directory, it will created it, and all the necessary files. If you want to see what's in all the files, run this from an admin CMD window:
taskkill /F /IM dllhost.exe

Then you can rename the WebCache directory to WebCache.old and take a look at the files that are in it. No need to worry about restarting dllhost.exe or not having a WebCache directory.

Windows will start up dllhose.exe and re-create all the files in the WebCache directory the next time it is needed. All the new files will have a few entries, mostly the data will all be zeros.

If you are curious as to what gets written to all the files, just repeat the process at the end of the day, and instead of naming the directory WebCache.old you can name it with today's date and then examine the changes written to the different files on a daily basis.

Here's how I do it to the log files stored in the Windows\Logs\CBS directory

Spoiler: Adding Today's date

echo Adding dates to the CBS log files
ren "%windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log" "%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~12,2%_CBS.Log"
pause
copy %windir%\logs\cbs\*.log %windir%\logs\cbs\old

I'm not sure how this would work re-naming directories. But I'm sure that someone here will know how to get it done.

 

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