Just delete them. You should get in the habit of doing so about weekly. With that many files, no telling how much addware and spyware cookies are in those folders! (BTW, you can only see these from within explorer, just opening the windows folder and opening the temp net files will not show them). Those oddball folder names will be recreated again periodically as IE needs them. I delete ALL of mine every few days. They must manually be removed from explorer as described above, you cannot remove ALL of the cache and cookies by "delete temporary internet files" from 'tools' and 'internet options'. -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "knightwriter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:01 AM Subject: PCWorks: temp internet files question Hi, Does anyone know about the folder under temporary internet named Content IE5? What it is and does. There are 4 folders under it, ex. one has the name 674vOn2v. In it are like 3000 items. There are 2000 or more in each one of these folders. I do not know where these files come from and if it is okay to just delete the folders. Is there a way to keep these files from going there and are they necessary to use the internet. When I delete anything the computer wants to lock up and have to restart. And it takes a long time to send these to the recyle bin. I hope I am not asking a real silly question here but it seems these files do not need to be there. Thanks for any input here. Sandy ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
