A Refreshing Question

Factual Questions
1

After a few days away, I flipped on my machine Sunday and began the requisite Surfing O’ The Boards. Load MPSIMS. All good. Click into a thread. So far no problem. Hit “BACK” button (MSIE 5.0), and the MPSIMS page is the one I saw when I had turned the machine OFF a few days back? WTF? “REFRESH” and all is good. Another thread to click into, hit “BACK”, and I’m back into the time machine of a few days back.

Now I did not diddle with cookie setting, and other sites work just fine. SDMB works well from my work platform, as well (not that I surf at work, mind you).

This home issue continues. This morning I "BACK"ed into the page I saw last night when I shut down. Clues? Advice? Exorcism Rites?

2

This happens periodically with my personal computer and with the computers I monitor at work. For some unknown reason your computer is reverting to the pages stored in its disk cache instead of grabbing the page from the site itself. A quick fix is to clear out your cache:

  1. Select the “Tools” menu in IE
  2. Select “Internet Options…”
  3. In the section titled “Temporary Internet Files,” click the button that says “Delete Files…”
  4. Check the box that says “Delete offline content.” This right here is probably where your problem lies.
  5. Click OK.

This process takes a little while and will cause your computer to become lagged, but it will make IE run much faster and clear up a lot of space on your computer to boot. You’d be surprised how much space cached pages can take up. :slight_smile:

3

I would try control panel:internet options: clear history

As a matter of fact, you should look at all the options there including ‘advanced’ & you should be able to tweak things. Netscape is easier for me as it has an option to refresh pages once per visit. Im not sure where that option is with IE.

4

There’s also an option (in both Netscape and IE) where you can tell the browser how often to actually go to the server and get the page you want to view. I usually keep this set to “Every time I view the page,” but there are other options (with different wordings between the two browsers).

5

Thanks for the suggestions!

saffostar, deleted files.
handy, cleared history. No hints in Advanced.
Kneadtoknow it is set to ALWAYS.

I’ve even deleted all cookies (yes I’ll re-logon everywhere), and I’m about to reboot, but the prob is the same after the first three suggestions.

6

No joy, still screwey.

Anybody know a good Exorcist?

7

Stranger still, this only happens here, not at the AP Wire, newpaper sites, or any other “click, read, back” site.

8

Huh. I’m at a total loss then, UncleBill. :frowning: Sorry, man.

9

Ignore my previous, it DOES happen at other sites. I thought I had stopped that post.

10

If my isp internet connection is slow then the browser automatically takes pages out of its cache for me, not that I want to see them.