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kaream
Re Content.IE5:
Assume a machine running XP, with 2 users: Alice & Bob.
Alice first opens My Computer, and opens the Folders tree on the left
side of the screen. She then opens Drive C: \ Documents and Settings \
Alice \ Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files. Here she sees a lot
of cookies, but no subfolders.
Alice also opens Drive C: \ Documents and Settings \ Bob \ Local
Settings \ Temporary Internet Files. Here she sees no cookies, but
does find two folders, Content.IE5 and OLK2. Looking further, she
finds that while OLK2 is apparently empty, Content.IE5 contains roughly
20 or so subfolders, each with random 8-character alphanumeric names.
And each of these subfolders contains hundreds of files of all types:
css, gif, htc, htm, jpg, js, php, xml, etc.
Now it's Bob's turn. When he opens Documents and Settings \ Bob \
Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files, he finds lots of cookies,
but no subfolders. Then he checks out Alice, and finds no cookies, but
he does see Alice's Content.IE5 and its subfolders, with all of Alice's
internet data files.
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If I've understood them correctly, some other commenters have claimed
that these are not "real" files. However, they do take up a lot of
disk space, and they can be copied to other folders for permanent
reference.
The easiest way that I've found to access your own internet data files,
again from the Folders view of My Computer, is as follows:
--rightclick Drive C:
--select Properties
--select Disk Cleanup
--highlight Temporary Internet Files
--select View Files.
This opens a new window displaying your own Content.IE5 and its
subfolders. Again, you can open a folders tree if you like, and
explore the contents of each subfolder. Individual data files can be
copied, deleted, etc.
For what it may be worth, when I was previously running Windows 2000 on
a single-user machine, Content.IE5 was not hidden from view; I could
see both the cookies in the main TIF folder, and Content.IE5 and its
subfolders and data files without having to make any sort of fancy
end-run like this.
Sorry, no email queries or replies.
Assume a machine running XP, with 2 users: Alice & Bob.
Alice first opens My Computer, and opens the Folders tree on the left
side of the screen. She then opens Drive C: \ Documents and Settings \
Alice \ Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files. Here she sees a lot
of cookies, but no subfolders.
Alice also opens Drive C: \ Documents and Settings \ Bob \ Local
Settings \ Temporary Internet Files. Here she sees no cookies, but
does find two folders, Content.IE5 and OLK2. Looking further, she
finds that while OLK2 is apparently empty, Content.IE5 contains roughly
20 or so subfolders, each with random 8-character alphanumeric names.
And each of these subfolders contains hundreds of files of all types:
css, gif, htc, htm, jpg, js, php, xml, etc.
Now it's Bob's turn. When he opens Documents and Settings \ Bob \
Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files, he finds lots of cookies,
but no subfolders. Then he checks out Alice, and finds no cookies, but
he does see Alice's Content.IE5 and its subfolders, with all of Alice's
internet data files.
--------------------------------------------------------
If I've understood them correctly, some other commenters have claimed
that these are not "real" files. However, they do take up a lot of
disk space, and they can be copied to other folders for permanent
reference.
The easiest way that I've found to access your own internet data files,
again from the Folders view of My Computer, is as follows:
--rightclick Drive C:
--select Properties
--select Disk Cleanup
--highlight Temporary Internet Files
--select View Files.
This opens a new window displaying your own Content.IE5 and its
subfolders. Again, you can open a folders tree if you like, and
explore the contents of each subfolder. Individual data files can be
copied, deleted, etc.
For what it may be worth, when I was previously running Windows 2000 on
a single-user machine, Content.IE5 was not hidden from view; I could
see both the cookies in the main TIF folder, and Content.IE5 and its
subfolders and data files without having to make any sort of fancy
end-run like this.
Sorry, no email queries or replies.