Windows 2000 SP4 not clearing Temporary Internet Files

[Hack]

With SP4 applied to "Windows 2000 Pro" I have the following problems:
1) Temporary Internet Files are not being deleted properly. The "Temporary
Internet Files" folder looks like it's deleted, other than cookies, but it's
not. The data still exists in "Content.IE5", a hidden folder most people
don't access. This is a major problem added with SP4. So now I've got to
write a Batch file to try to keep that "Content.IE5 cleaned up.
2) IE keeps hanging up uncontrollably and won't even shut down on re-start.
3) DHCP doesn't assigning a proper IP address to my Ethernet card - instead
it assigns a 192.168.1.47. Uninstalling the fix won't fix that bug.

It appears the sole purpose of SP 4 is to make Windows 2000 users upgrade to
XP in desperation.

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

With SP4 applied to "Windows 2000 Pro" I have the following problems:

1) Temporary Internet Files are not being deleted properly. The
"Temporary Internet Files" folder looks like it's deleted, other
than cookies, but it's not. The data still exists in "Content.IE5",
a hidden folder most people don't access. This is a major problem
added with SP4. So now I've got to write a Batch file to try to
keep that "Content.IE5 cleaned up.

Are you sure this is specific to SP4? See

2) IE keeps hanging up uncontrollably and won't even shut down on
re-start.

3) DHCP doesn't assigning a proper IP address to my Ethernet card -
instead it assigns a 192.168.1.47. Uninstalling the fix won't fix
that bug.

Millions of people use Windows 2000 SP4 without either of these
problems. (What is wrong with 192.168.1.47 ? That just looks like
the address assigned by a Linksys/Netgear/D-Link firewall box...)

- Pat

 

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Are you sure this is specific to SP4? See


Millions of people use Windows 2000 SP4 without either of these
problems. (What is wrong with 192.168.1.47 ? That just looks like
the address assigned by a Linksys/Netgear/D-Link firewall box...)

- Pat

1) was fixed by reverting to SP3 - obviously SP4 has a major flaw in that
area from my perspective. There is a hidden system file in Temporary
Internet Files called "Content IE5". I doubt very many people are aware of
it. What you see for "Temporary Internet Files" is only a view of
"Content.IE5" plus your cookies which are stored separately.

In the case of SP3 if Temporary Internet Files is showing as cleared other
than cookies, then Content.IE5 is also cleared except for web-site files of
0 bytes. However in SP4 when Temporary Internet Files is automatically
cleared, I found Content.IE5 is not. Why is this important? For example
after I access my banking account online I check Temporary Internet Files
was automatically cleared to insure there are no web-site files left on my
hard drive from my bank's web-site. That way no other web-site can access
those web-site files.

With SP3 I know those web-site files are also deleted from Content.IE5 and
therefore no other web-site can access them, but not so with SP4. The
exception with SP3 is web-site files of 0 bytes which I manually delete from
Content.IE5. Why MSN and others use 0-byte files I'm still not sure - the
name of 0-byte file appears to contain the information the web-site want
stored on your hard drive since the file itself is empty. This is of course
independent of cookies which you can control.

2) I'm reinstalling IE to try to fix the rest - only these recent security
warnings got worried enough to try SP4.