Puzzling problem...

[Brandon Taylor]

When I use the "Back" and "Forward" buttons on Internet Explorer 6, it
reloads each page as if I had visited it for the very first time. It
reloads text, pictures... everything. What's up with that?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Is the page and its contents all cached? Test by setting Work Offline
(Alt-F,W) and then cloning the window (Ctrl-N). If you get prompted
to be connected or if you see Red-X in the cloned window some of it
is not cached; so no option can avoid whatever overhead that causes.

The option you are using still requires that a check be done for each
element at least once when you open IE and visit that site; so you should
try comparing what the overheads are for each of:
1. a Ctrl-F5 refresh command
2. a second visit with checking set to Every visit...
3. a second visit to the page using your option
4. checking set to Never
(Those are listed in an order of expected decreasing overhead.)

You can get a rough quantitative idea of the overheads using
standard tools such as your connection status (bytes and packets)
or in a command window by entering
netstat -s -p tcp | find /i "segments"
and then calculating the differences in the statistics between each test.
You would have to issue the command before the first test.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Try deleting your cache/TIF - Tools...Internet Options, General tab, Delete files - tick the box for offline content.
It's possible your TIF is full or it's index.dat file is corrupt. If still no joy, totally delete the TIF:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
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Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
(e-mail address removed)

I've locked the setting onto "Every time I start Internet Explorer." Is
there any other setting that I might want to change? Because that didn't
help much.
Check your cache/TIF settings - Tools...Internet Options...General tab,
Settings. I prefer the "Every time..." setting myself.