CacheMonitor is used for tracking Internet cache changes.

It displays the contents of the entire cache in a scrollable, sortable multi-column list window and displays changes to the cached files in the "Status" column.

To run the program, go to the directory you have downloaded it to and double-click on its icon. No installation is necessary. (To uninstall it, simply delete it.)

When started, it automatically does an initial scan of the cache. This version currently does not automatically update the cache listing like the original console display version of CacheMonitor. (A future version may have a setting for this.)

To update the listing (after you have browsed a few web pages), go to the "Action" menu and select "Scan Cache". Any changes that occured in the cache will be marked in the "Status" column. You can sort the listing by different criteria by clicking on the column headers. (Just like in Windows Explorer's detail view.)

When CacheMonitor finds files that have been deleted, it lets you know by displaying "Deleted" in the "Status" column. If you re-scan the cache for changes repeatedly while web browsing, the deletions displayed continue to build up, and can make the listing seem cluttered after a while. To remove these files from the display that no longer exist, selection "Remove Deletions" from the "Action" menu.

If you wish to have a permanent record of the changes that have occured in your cache while you are monitoring it (or to simply save a listing of the files in the cache), select the "Save As" item from the "Action" menu. You'll be asked for a filename and a location to save the record.

The newly created record is a plain text file that you can load into any text editor or word processor. The order in which the files are listed is the order in which they appear in the CacheMonitor window. Note that currently not all of the columns are output.

What's New in This Release:

В· I noticed with the latest versions of IE6, you no longer see cookies in the Explorer view of the cache folder. How annoying! So I added the option of viewing cookie entries in this version of CacheMonitor II.
В· Fixed bug - the program relied on an OS call that is not available in Window 95. (I guess no one must be using Win 95 anymore, since no one ever complained about it! :-) Now it dynamically looks for that OS call on newer versions of Windows, and relies on another OS call for Win95.
В· The program's options, window position, size, and the widths of the columns are now remembered when the program exits.
В· It seems list view columns cannot handle more than 259 characters of text, even when displaying text using a callback procedure. This was causing garbage to appear at the end of the HTTP header info column text. Now the program truncates headers that are too long.
В· Added Windowx XP visual styles to the program interface.