Clearing your browser's cache | AERODATA SOFTWARE LTD

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Even when your name is displayed above the menu to the right, we have had reports of problems in accessing our updates areas. To correct this problem, first trying re-loading or refreshing the page but if that fails the next step would be to clear the cache.

To speed up access to pages you visit, your browser often keeps a copy of the page previously seen. When you re-visit a page that your browser has a copy of, it will be loaded from the local copy, therefore making the page display much faster. Your browser keeps copies of pages that you visit in a cache.

To clear this cache, here are instructions for several popular browser vendors and versions.

Internet Explorer (Version 3.x)

Select "View | Options..." from the menu

Change to the "Advanced" tab

Click on the "Settings" button

Click on "Empty Folder..."

Internet Explorer (Version 4.x)

Select "View | Internet Options..." from the menu

Change to the "General" tab

Click on the "Delete Files" button

Internet Explorer (Version 5.x and 6.x)

Select "Tools | Internet Options..." from the menu

Change to the "General" tab

Click on the "Delete Files" button

Mozilla Firefox (All versions)

Select "Tools | Options..." from the menu

Change to the "Privacy" page

Click the "Clear" button next to the word "Cache"

Netscape Navigator (Version 3.x)

Select "Options | Network Preferences..." from the menu

Change to the "Cache" tab

Click on the "Clear Memory Now" button

Click on the "Clear Disk Cache" button

Netscape Navigator (Version 4.x)

Select "Edit | Preferences..." from the menu

Expand the "Advanced " category

Select "Cache"

Click on the "Clear Memory Cache" button

Click on the "Clear Disk Cache" button

AOL (Explorer Version 3.x)

Select "Members | Preferences" from the menu

Click on the "WWW" button

Click on "Advanced..."

Click on "Purge Cache"

AOL (Version 4.x)

Select "My AOL | Preferences" from the menu

Click on the "WWW" button

Change to the "General" tab

Click on "Delete Files" button

Opera

Select "Preferences | Cache..." from the menu

Click on the "Empty" button

If that does not work... (from www.opera.com)

Using Windows Explorer or File Manager

Go to the Opera directory (default is c:\Program Files\Opera

Open the folder called "Cache"

Delete all the files in this folder