Emptying Cache

[dannyk13]

I have Windows 7 on Google Chrome and usually empty the cache weekly.Pressing ctrl,shift & delete brings up a box with a tab "clear browsing data". Clicking on this produces a spinning circle which usually lasts for a couple of minutes and is then replaced by the settings page.
My problem is that the last few times this circle has rotated for ages and the settings page fails to appear.How can I tell if the cache has i fact been emptied? All help appreciated.

[Guilbert53]

I have had a lot of problems using Chrome on W7 with this new layout.

I often get the spinning circle then have to close the Chrome browser down.

[dannyk13]

I've tried that but still same result.

[aelmpvw]

after emptying the cache 'ctrl h' should show the history empty

[dannyk13]

History was almost full, so I deleted it from that page.Still don 't know why "clear browsing data" does not work.

[dannyk13]

bump

[Buenchico]

Use a third part utility instead of using the one within Chrome itself:

Download and install Free Internet Window Washer:
http://www.eusing.com/Window_Washer/Window_Washer.htm

The first time you use it, click on 'Wash Settings'. Click the 'Browsers' tab and then on the 'Google Chrome' one. Put a tick against everything you want 'washed'.

Look through the other options as well and tick whatever you're happy to zap whenever you run the program. In particular, I suggest ensuring that you delete the Internet Explorer cache whenever you run FIWW, even if you never use Internet Explorer. That's because other Windows software shares that cache. For example, I stream a lot of radio programs using Windows Media Player and I recently found that there were over 20Gb of temporary files dumped in the IE cache.

Once you've got FIWW configured to your liking, run it periodically to zap anything you don't need. Then click on 'Test' to check that all the rubbish has disappeared.