Wes...Pete here - we have been conversing in the "can't find message"
thread. You are a smart guy, and I appreciate your inputs (I am liking this
site more and more every day, and I just found it - lol). I wrote you a
preliminary about the dreaded invisible "content.IE5" folder (which pertains
to the content.MSO folder also) in my last post to you in the other thread,
and I see your comments below address it and certainly shed some light on
it. Isn't it amazing I found this post by accident, made a comment on it,
and then saw your comment, which pertains to my post in the other thread -
WOW!
I still have many questions about the 8 subfolders under the invisible
content.IE5 folders, and deleting them, but windows puts them right back (at
least the first one I deleted) - and some of them it won't let you delete
because it says another program is using one of the files........ It now
makes sense that the content.MSO folder (which is also invisible) is related
to Office. MS hides the whole shabang (i.e. content.IE5 and content.MSO),
so you can't mess with it (but you can if you type in the full path name in
the address bar- but you have to know they were there to begin with <g>).
They show up in Irfan thumbnails, but not in windows explorer (isn't that
interesting), and I have everything checked (and unchecked) to show hidden
files. You will see me start to talk about this in my other thread.
Please don't attempt to try and explain anything yet, since I have
additional questions about the invisible content.IE5 folder (mostly), and
the content.MSO folder. As a start is it safe to check the "delete offline
content" box and if I do will it empty all the garbage out of the 8
subfolders in content.IE5 (over 12,000 files and 21MB - they are not TIF's
(I empty them regularly) - did you ever look at them - it is a bunch of
garbage with a lot of it saying "0" kb - what the hell is all that stuff
for - and it just keeps building up until it hits your cache limit you have
set, I assume - but they are not TIF's). I will probably do it anyway - I
doubt it will crash my machine, since you said to go ahead and check the
box.
Now...you have increased my interest in this again (this has intrigued me
for years - it started on my millennium with the IE6 upgrade, but MS didn't
hide the content.IE5 folder in ME, and it didn't have a content.MSO folder).
I bet you know the answers to all my questions. I will write a new post
addressing this stuff and will put "for Wes" in the subject, so you won't
miss it. I really appreciate your help Wes, and I have more questions to
come, in the future, as part of trying to increase my knowledge of windows
XP, and computers in general. Thanks...Pete
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