Delete Office File Cache

1. Delete Office File Cache
2. How To Clear Cache In Excel
3. Cannot Delete Office File Cache

To clear the whole auto-complete list. With Outlook 2013 open, click on the ‘File’ menu. From the menu click on ‘Options’. From the list, click ‘Mail’. Scroll down to the ‘Send messages’ section. Click on the ‘Empty Auto-Complete list’ button. Click ‘OK’ to close the window. If you want to clear cache on Windows 10 then delete the temporary files from storage settings. Press Windows key, type Storage and hit Enter. Click on Temporary files from the right side of the page.

Delete Office File Cache

In Windows 7 there is no user interface to delete Offline Files cache (CSC cache). The only way to delete cache is using registry key. Detail steps are given below.

How To Clear Cache In Excel

• Open Registry editor (Execute Regedit from Run window)
• Go to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesCscParameters
• If Parameters key does not exist under CSC you can add it.
• Now in the Parameters node create a new registry value with the name FormatDatabase of type REG_DWORD (i.e DWord 32-bit value)
• Set the data in this new registry value to 1.
• Close registry editor
• Reboot the machine

The above steps can only be done from an administrator’s account. We can do the above steps from command line too. For this you just need to run the below command from elevated administrator command prompt.

Cannot Delete Office File Cache

If you run the above command from normal administrator command prompt you will get “Error: Access is denied” message.

Note that 'Delete temporary files' button under the 'Disk Usage' tab in 'Manage Offline files' window is not meant for deleting offline files cache. Some people have the misconception that this deletes offline files cache. This is not true.