Thanks to Troy's reply I have finally figured out how to delete all those
files in the four folders!  I went into control panel, internet options and
deleted my off line files.  I had never done that before since I didn't know
exactly what they were and figured I had none.  Ho are offline files
created?  I thought that if you worked off line in outlook express or
something you created them, and I never work off line that I know of? When I
went back to windows explorer they were gone, but soon as I used hotmail
again there were a few of them created.  But before I deleted them there
were 13,000 and 65mb!  Thanks so much for everyone's answers.  I just hope
everything works ok now.  Don't know if that will help the freezing up
problem or not.
thanks, Jan

>
>JAN and DEMETRI, Just for your information, I have 8 of these folders, 4
>from a previous version of IE, and when I updated to IE5.5 the other 4
>showed up.  I have deleted these through the registry only to be remade
>upon
>reboot.  I have had no slow down or crashes from these files what so ever
>and as far as I can determine is that they are added upon upgrades ie: from
>IE5 to IE5.01 to IE5.5 which in turn makes these files.  They are supposed
>to make browsing faster (?) and are integrated into the system.  I would
>not
>worry about these files being there because unless you have a very small
>hard drive they will make no difference.  Just delete the temporary files
>from the desktop by right clicking on the IE icon select properties and
>delete the temp and offline files their.  Doing this from the desktop helps
>insure you get most of the temp files deleted.
>
>Troy L Mowdy
>
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>
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