What does cached mean?
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Pronounced cash, a special high-speed storage mechanism. It can be either a reserved section of main memory or an independent high-speed storage device. Two types of caching are commonly used in personal computers: memory caching and disk caching. \nA memory cache, sometimes called a cache store or RAM cache, is a portion of memory made of high-speed static RAM (SRAM) instead of the slower and cheaper dynamic RAM (DRAM) used for main memory. Memory caching is effective because most programs access the same data or instructions over and over. By keeping as much of this information as possible in SRAM, the computer avoids accessing the slower DRAM. \n\nSome memory caches are built into the architecture of microprocessors. The Intel 80486 microprocessor, for example, contains an 8K memory cache, and the Pentium has a 16K cache. Such internal caches are often called Level 1 (L1) caches. Most modern PCs also come with external cache memory, called Level 2 (L2) caches. These caches sit between the CPU and the DRAM. Like L1 caches, L2 caches are composed of SRAM but they are much larger. \n\nDisk caching works under the same principle as memory caching, but instead of using high-speed SRAM, a disk cache uses conventional main memory. The most recently accessed data from the disk (as well as adjacent sectors) is stored in a memory buffer. When a program needs to access data from the disk, it first checks the disk cache to see if the data is there. Disk caching can dramatically improve the performance of applications, because accessing a byte of data in RAM can be thousands of times faster than accessing a byte on a hard disk. \n\nWhen data is found in the cache, it is called a cache hit, and the effectiveness of a cache is judged by its hit rate. Many cache systems use a technique known as smart caching, in which the system can recognize certain types of frequently used data. The strategies for determining which information should be kept in the cache constitute some of the more interesting problems in computer science.
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a higher level cache put data faster in the processor! The processor makes fewer memory cycles! How it would cost more!\n\nA faster processor, will however work at a greater speed if even if a few cache is present!
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Most likely you're thinking of your browser cache.  It does this so that whenever you go to a web page, if you've looked at it recently, it doesn't have to completely reload everything.  Basically, think of it like short-term memory - rather than having it learn everything continually, it stores a little bit in a regulated amount of space, and then when it's full, it discards the old stuff.
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As long as you didn't save it in the current pixelly shape, then just reboot and all should be ok, even when you reload it to check it out again.  If you did save it and it opens in its weird form, the only thing I can suggest is a backup copy, if you have one.  If you opened it up in a browser you should be able to search the cache files (based on whether it's in .jpg, .gif, or other form instead of the cache files that end in .htm or .html) and it should still be in its original unaltered form.  I hope this helps.
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Those answers while true... may not be enough.\n\nEmbedded used in a computer context USUALLY means,\n\nsoftware stored on chip rather than other means.\n\nFor example, I can embed Windows on a chip rather than the hard drive. So the device will boot from chip memeory instead of the hard drive. \n\nMany appliances are imbedding operating systems on chips so they can run applications and use networking. Linux and the old BeOS are heavily being persued for that use.
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I assume you mean pagefile or swapfile usage. This is an area of the hardrive that is used by the operating system like RAM. I prevents you just using all your RAM and then having to stop a program and ensures that currently running programs can access RAM.\nTheres a lot more to it than this though.
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cache is a folder in your computer on where the files of the webpages you viewed downloaded. this is also called temporary internet files, but some webpages have scripts that don't download the files into your pc, this is for protection usually of copyright materials..\n\nif you are using wimdows xp it is located at\n\nC:/documents and setting/*some user*/local settings/temporary internet files/\n\nA cookie is just one or more pieces of information stored as text strings on your machine. A Web server sends you a cookie and the browser stores it. The browser then returns the cookie to the server the next time the page is referenced. \n\nThe most common use of a cookie is to store a user ID\ncookie does no harm in computers.
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no, well technically yes if it's stored in the hard disks cache before it's written to disk, but still no.
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Overwritten means gone forever. You can restore  deleted files until they're overwritten. It's nothing to do with Mac or PC. It's just what overwriting means.
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No I don't think that Flash has a cache. Which flash are you talking about? Macromedia Flash? It hasn't got a cache. When you run flash in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the files are stored in your "temporary internet files" folder.\n\nIf you have less memory and you have too many programs running, then it runs slowly.
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You're probably talking about DNS.  The cache is a list of stored DNS entries... IP addresses, etc.  If you want to purge your cache go to a command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns".  That will purge your cache and clean your machine.  Or, just wait overnight and do nothing.  The TTL (time to live) for most DNS entries is only a few hours.  It will purge itself.
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do a search files and folders for "cache" then find the one you want.
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If you want to know how much cache your processor has i would go to www.belarc.com and download their free advisor tool.  it tells you exactly what is in your computer, hardware and software.\n\nYou could also check the BIOS setup, it might tell you.  When you restart your computer, you usually hit F2, F10, or DEL key right when the PC turns on.  Its usually in the first screen.\nHope this helps!
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it means that those folders and files had been compress by your operating system (windows 2000..windows xp) to save some disk space. this is usually done with old files and folder that you had not access/use for a long period of time.
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RAM (Random Access Memory) is volatile so all that is needed to "clean" it is to restart your computer.  Volatile means that its contents are not persisted across multiple restarts of the computer.\n\nThat being said, if you keep your computer running long periods of time, memory can be "leaked" from applications such that overall performance of your computer can degrade.  Without rebooting, this will slowly (or not so slowly) cause performance issues.\n\nYou can purchase software the will periodically optimize memory.  Once such tool is called RAM Idle LE 1.5.  Do a Google search to find out more if you like.\n\nColby
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It gives results from cached pages, which may be alerady deleted, but show up in the search results.
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Do you do regular maintenance on both computers?  Defrag-clean cache, clear out history?  I know when mine starts slowing down if I do those 3 things, it makes a whole lot of difference.  Just a thought, and good luck.  Nothing more frustrating than a sluggish puter.