A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.

Websites that go through a secure channel have the https:// rather than the default http:// address in the browser. A secure channel makes use of digital certificates ...

If your storage drive is always running out of space and you're not sure what's eating it up, check your temporary files. They can balloon into massive storage hogs, sometimes consuming dozens of ...

I view lots of gaming .mpeg videos on the net (mostly .mpeg .avi & .wmp). I never save them to files, I just click on them and they say downloading to a Temp file, and they just open in my realone ...