Hi Blithe
I have gone to the big guns for a bit more on this issue, which may be of
some interest: (From MS MVP's for IE.OE and Windows 95-XP). I was not sure
exactly what information you were wanting too well, so, I just covered all
bases
Here is one that I think will interest you based upon your comment here, as
it depends on how you want to delete, both or separately:
FYI - I cleared my TIP folder by accessing it thru Explorer. Guess
what! THAT ALSO CLEARED MY Cookies folder!!!
How's that for Windows folder logic? I'm backed up & can restore my
Cookies folder. Otherwise, goodbye cookies.
I consider this issue a Windows BUG. I'm amazed there's no MS
Knowledge Base info or complaints like mine considering all the years
it's been out there for users to stumble over.
Alex Nichol
TIF and Cookies are in quite separate physical folders.
But in XP if you open TIF either direct in Explorer or via the TIF
Settings button - 'view files' in Internet Options, the contents of
Cookies is included. They are not deleted though if you use the
'Delete files' in Internet Options - there is a separate Delete
Cookies button.
(Aside - the above Delete Files and Delete Cookies buttons are also in the
IE6 and IE SP1 on the Tools | Internet Options | General tab)
Mike Maltby
For those using Outlook Express it is however essential that the Temporary
Internet Files, including "All offline content" be periodically emptied as
OE
dumps two files in TIF for each message displayed regardless of whether it
is
html or plain text. For those working newsgroups the number of these files
can rapidly build up. This behaviour started with IE5.5 and remains in the
latest RC2 version of IE6.
Alex Nichol
I don't usually use outlook express. But have just experimented,
emptying TIF and then using OE (XP SP2 RC2) to get in the daily SPAM
on my spam trap address, look at one or two in plain text and connect
to the BING newsgroups and look at a few messages there (both preview
and launch into their own windows), and I could not find any
indication of any new file when I went back to look in TIF after
closing OE
Wesley Vogel
[[When you empty the Temporary Internet Files folder in Internet
Explorer, files that start with the word "Cookie" may remain in the
folder.]]
[[These files are pointers to the actual cookies that are located in
the Windows\Cookies folder. To retain the association between these
pointers and the actual cookie files, they are not deleted when you
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder. However, if you manually
delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, both
the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie file located in the
Cookies folder are deleted.]]
Sandi Hardmeier
This may help explain...
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers3.htm#Cache
Wesley Vogel
Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
clear out temporary files and delete cookies.
http://www.pchell.com/support/privacy.shtml
Computer Health
http://www.aumha.org/a/health.php#tip6
Alex Nichol
Temporary means Temporary. Ones in the regular TEMP environmental
variable folders can be cleaned out as soon as the program that uses
them exits. It is advisable not to do this automatically at the
'autoexec' level, because some software installs leave some files
there for use when the system reboots. But I have a 'clean it up'
batch file that I run in the registry HKLM Run key
Ones in Temp Files are only needed should you be likely to go back to
the page. In Internet Options - Settings button I suggest cutting the
space allowed down - say 50 MB is plenty - and leave it to its own
devices.
I hope this will give you a bit more insight as to how the two separate
folders work.
Jan
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