Temporary Internet Files

First, I can't answer what those folders are. I have them too. But when you delete Temporary Internet Files in Internet Options, cookies are NOT deleted. If you don't have any web-sites that automatically log you in or that you've customized, I would delete all of the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder manually, including all of the subfolders. But don't do this if you visit web sites that you want to save your settings.

I delete all files in the Temporary internet file everytime I am finished on line. The folders under content.IE5 can be deleted they are created by the OS. Why they are created is a mystery to me, and why they have the same files as the temporary folder, who knows.

The cookies that are in there hold information as to your surfing habits and what ad banners that you might respond to.

If after you delete all of the files in the temporary internet files, you do a right click on temporary and then click on properties you will see that there are files that are not deleted. If you then fo into the folders under Content.IE5 you will not be able to see them. If you are worried about deleting the folders undr contentIE.5 you can right click and select find. When the find dialog box appears click the find button and let it search for all files in that folder. You can then delete the files from the find dialog box.

After you are done deleting the files in the folder under content.IE5 right click on temporary internet files and select properties again. It will show up with a couple of files and a couple of folders.

Hope this helps.

FYI. I also delete the files out of C:\windows\cookies and C:\windows\history

To me they only take up space.

Hope this hels
Rob K.

First. Cookies are located at hidden directory C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES and it has nothing to do with Temporary internet files.
Second. There are few ways to manage temporary files.
1. You can boot your computer to MS-DOS mode and delete file index.datin Content.IE5 directory.
2. You can delete manually all files in above mentioned directories (8PAJWDEJ etc.), try to keep hidden file Desktop.ini
3. Click on Tools in IE5 menu, choose Internet Options, in Tab General click on Delete files, check Delete all offline content and click OK. By clicking Settings (right to Delete Files) you can restrict the amount of disk space for temporary files. And the last advice - click on Tab Advance, go down and check option Empty Temporary Internet files folder under security.

Hope this helps.

If you want to delete the index.dat file evertime you boot, place the following command in the autoexec.bat file:
del c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5\index.dat

Not that this answers your question, since that already seems to have been done, but to clear up a little confusion you all seem to have about the temporary internet files in general.

The sub Folders you see under "Content IE5" are not true sub folders. I guess the easiest comparison would be, If you remember the Old Dos 5.0 DoubleSpace used to create a single file and put your entire hard drive into this one File, that was then mounted as a Drive?

IE5 Uses a similar tech to achieve the same thing. So the reason that all of the folders apear to have the same information as the Root, is that when browsing to this special type of file, (Or Folder as it apears to you) Windows just looks at all of the files and give a listing of the contents. The sub folders aren't treated any differently by Explorer.

Although some software does see these folders as seperate, Windows does not report them to the UI as such, thus all folders will appear to have the same information.

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