As another reply said, you can safely delete them. All that will happen is
you would have to reload any text and graphics from web pages you visit
again, and possibly re-enter userids and passwords that were saved in
cookies.

If you go to the Windows\Temporary Internet Files folder in explorer, you
should see all the individuals files with their website addresses. (It's a
special shell folder and displays differently from a normal one.)

The other thing to be aware of is that it may in fact take far more than the
70MB it appears to. Every file takes at least 4KB even if it's only a
100-byte GIF. If you look at the properties for the folder (right-click ->
Properties) you should see two figures for the space used. The first is the
space for actual data, the second (allocated) is the space consumed on the
disk. I've just cleaned out my temp internet files and I have 2.2MB of them,
occupying 13.5MB of disk - more than 80% wasted.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> I have a 500 Mhz PC with 128 Mb Ram. It is running Win98 SE
> using Internet Explorer 5.0
> In Temporary Internet Files there is a hidden folder, ContentINET5,
> containing about 8,000 files amounting to about 70Mb.
> These files are mostly small .gif, .jpg, and .html files and
> seem to be
> harmless. They are not Cookies.
>
> Can I safely delete these files?

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