This page displays technical information about the cache and your computer system. It also displays the version of CacheSentry Pro you are currently running. This information can be used by you if you are trying to diagnose problems with IE and it also can be saved to a file if you plan to send us a tech support issue.

Cache Location
This tells you were on your hard drive the Internet Explorer cache folder is located. If you are running a recent version of Internet Explorer, you will notice that CacheSentry Pro says the real location of the cache folder includes a directory named "content.ie5". This is normal, and is the real location of the cache folder, instead of it simply being "Temporary Internet Files". Even when you customize the location of the cache folder, recent versions of IE always create a "content.ie5" subfolder to place the actual cached data.

Below the cache location is a line of text telling you whether your Internet cache is global or private. On most Win9x systems with just one user account, you will have a single global cache. If you have multiple users on a Win9x system, that user may be using the global cache or may have their own private cache in their user home folder depending on how they set up their account. For NT-based systems (NT, 2K, XP, Longhorn) this will almost always display the current user has a private cache. You will only see this as a global cache on those systems if the system administrator has set things up specifically to work that way.

Loaded Manager Filename
This is the full path to the manager set file CacheSentry Pro will load the next time it starts. You can change this by specifying a manager set to load as a command line argument, loading a new manager set from the Cache Size Settings page, or by saving the current manager set to a new name or location.

Filesystem Info
Technical info about the filesystem/volume where the cache folder is located. It displays the type of filesystem and the filesystem flags. If you are interested in the meaning of the filesystem flags, go to the MSDN website and look up the docs for the OS call GetVolumeInformation().

Cache Cluster Size
The actual data of all files on a hard drive volume are divided into clusters. A cluster is the smallest size a file can be divided up into. For instance, if a file is 1 byte in size and the cluster size is 4096, then the file actually takes up 4096 bytes on the hard drive (plus some additional overhead, depending on the type of filesystem) and 4095 bytes are wasted. Also, if a file is larger than the cluster size but is not an exact multiple of that cluster size, the amount of space that remains in the last cluster block of a file is also wasted. For example, a 32769 byte file stored on a volume with 32768 byte clusters actually uses 65536 bytes because an additional 32768 cluster is needed for that one extra byte. If you plan to keep your Internet cache in a different location that the Internet Explorer default, consider using a volume with the smallest cluster size as it will improve the efficiency of storage of all those small cached files. (Since web page files can be numerous and notoriously small!) On my system I created a dedicated Internet cache/Outlook Express volume with NTFS and made the cluster size 512 bytes which is the smallest cluster size possible with NTFS. Note however that there may be a loss of efficiency if you make the cluster size too small on a volume that is too large, and it is not a good idea to make cluster sizes smaller than 4096 on volumes that contain your programs, Windows OS, and/or swap file because you will take a performance hit when loading Windows and programs.

Note that the only way to change the cluster size of a volume is to either create or recreate a volume or use a partitioning tool that can change the cluster size of an existing volume.

IE / Windows Version
Displays your version and build of Internet Explorer and your Windows build number.

System Folder Location
Displays the path to the Windows system folder, where most of the system DLLs are located.

DLL File Information
Displays the version information on a selected few system DLLs that are related to Internet Explorer and used by CacheSentry Pro. This is mainly for technical support, but you can look at this info if your suspect a wayward program has overwritten a system DLL with an older version.

Save all of the information for technical support
This gives you an easy way to save all of the above information to a text file that you can include in any e-mails you make to technical support regarding this program, instead of having to copy the information down manually. A dialog will pop up asking where to save the file.