Most people name ActiveSync (Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista) as the most annoying aspect of working with a Windows Mobile Pocket PC (Phone Edition) or Smartphone. The second most annoying aspect is Windows Mobile Memory Management (or lack thereof). This of course always brings up the “X” button that doesn’t actually close the application as it does in Windows XP/Vista. It just hides the display and shows you the previously used application or screen. But, I’m not going there today. Instead, I’ll mention something else.
If you use your Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, you may notice your device becoming more and more sluggish overall after a time. Like its desktop counterpart, Windows Mobile IE caches web pages as you surf the web. This cache can grows to take up a couple of megabytes of memory on your system which doesn’t have much memory to begin with. The solution is to pop into Windows Mobile IE’s options menu and delete the cache every now and then. If you use WMIE a lot, you might want to do this at least once day. I tend to empty the cache about once a week.
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4 responses to “Speed Up Windows Mobile By Deleting Its Internet Explorer Cache”
Pocket Mechanic is 2 words…
one word
“Pocket Mechanic” it has feature to clear out cache and other junk files, and many other features.
GREAT tip!
I kept getting a message saying that I had NO storage left
and I have a gb card so I was confused
cleared my cache! Presto!!
🙂 thanks alot
Activesync annoying? Relatively speaking Cancer is annoying! Osama bin Laden is annoying! Bill Gates deserves life in prison with a 300 pound ex- biker cell mate named “Nerd Lover” as a reward for Activesync. My favorite feature is the way it is designed so that no matter what third party sync software one buys they are still tied to this app from the bowels of hell. Now that Bill has retired from his traditional role as the most vicious predatory capitalist since John D.Rockefeller maybe he can take time out from giving speaches against predatory capitalism and fund a philant ropic effort to fix Activesync.