IE not responding to website changes

[gib65]

I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I'm not sure where else to put it.

Is there any reason that IE absolutely WON'T update the content of a website by retrieving it from the source? This happens time and time again. It happens whether I'm building a website on my personal computer (localhost) or remotely on a server subject to public viewing. For example, I'm now trying to change an image that's suppose to be displayed when the user clicks on a certain area of the page (I have an area map), but IE simply refuses to reflect the changed image; it insists on displaying the old image.

I've tried going into tools > delete browsing history > selecting everything, I've tried shutting IE down and starting it up again, I've even tried reboot my computer, but it's as if it's got a private cache where it stores the old image and just won't bother to ever check at the source to see if anything's been updated, and it just won't rely on anything else and it won't allow the user any access to it so as to erase or modify it.

I know there's nothing wrong with my website because the updated effects I'm trying to implement work fine in Firefox and other web browsers. It's just IE... and it happens all the time.

Can anyone explain this?

[aaron1a12]

This is a common problem in IE.

Looks like it saves the cache somewhere really hidden

[djr33]

This may not be helpful, but in Firefox when you refresh it often doesn't reload all of the external files (like images). But if you use shift+f5 (or shift+ctrl+r) it will force all of the external files to be reloaded. I haven't used IE in a while, but I believe there is may be a similar command. Try that... not sure if that's really a permanent answer, even if it works.

[traq]

found this with a quick Google: http://www.ica.bc.ca/kb.php3?helpartid=7