HI,

To delete the files in the Content.IE5  folders when you delete Temporary
Internet Files, make sure you put a check mark in the box when the window
ask you if you want to delete offline content.    That will get rid of the
files...and sometimes the folders.     If the folders don't disappear, they
will on your next reboot.

However, WIndows will rebuild the offline content files.

Sue Na
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At 07:34 PM 3/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok let me get this straight.
>
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder ... I have another folder there called "Temporary
>Internet Files"
>
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\Temporary Internet Files
>
>Now here I have a folder called Contents.IE5
>
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
>
>Now within this area I have four FOLDERS, each of them names with numbers
>and letters such as "4duvkhu3" for example and I also have a file on this
>level called "desktop" (Configuration Settings) which I believe is one of
>those "invisible" files that I am really not supposed to see.
>
>Now if I try to delete any of these weird named folders in this area, I get
>a message saying that deleting this folder may cause some programs not to
>run properly.
>
>Now is this the area of which you speak? Adding further inside all these
>four folders is a 1KB file called "desktop" (Configuration Settings) but
>nothing else is stored here.
>
>I use Win98 and have Norton Systemworks installed. Since I get this message
>about deleting this folder may cause some programs not to run properly, I
>just leave them as they are. Most of the cache for IE is stored in
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP area (at the "Temporary Internet Files folder level) AND
>also at C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files area.
>
>Why am I not able to delete these folders as others suggest they can? And
>where did that file "desktop" (configuration settings) file come from? Just
>curious about this. Not that it is causing any problems but seeing as how
>this topic was brought up I thought I'd follow through and ask.
>

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