Question: On several occasions I have had difficultydeleting files in the "Temporary Internet Files" folder underthe windows directory in Windows 95. Eventually they go,but it takes several tries. I've also noticed that even thoughno files show up in Explorer's contents window, theproperties window shows the "Temporary Internet Files"folder as containing nine files and four folders (4.50-Mbtotal). Even when Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 3.02)is enabled to show all files, it shows none in the contentwindow. Could it be that I am doing something to invoke thefolder's awful wrath?
Answer: There's a bit of Windows hide-and-seek going onhere. Let me explain how MS Internet Explorer works.
Explorer, which is Microsoft's Web browser, storestemporary Internet files in a four-folder system: "cache1"through "cache4." Web page data as well as multimedia filesare stored within these folders which, thanks to a little bit oftechnical trickery, is hidden to you the user.
In fact, even if you ask Windows Explorer to show them toyou, they may initially not be viewable. With someconfiguration you can get them to be displayed as one biglump of files and not partitioned in the "cache" folders.
The idea is that if you've hit a Web page before, instead ofretrieving the data down through your skinny 28.8 Kbsmodem connection all over again, Explorer simply grabs acopy from these folders which are easily accessible on yourhard drive.
Previous versions of Internet Explorer used a single folder tocache Web data. Version 3.0 uses multiple folders toimprove browser performance.
Each folder contains an index file that tracks the contents ofthe folder. When a new page is added to a cache folder,information about the page is added to the folder's index file.
When Internet Explorer looks to see if a page is stored in thecache, it uses the index file to determine if the page is stored
This improves browsing performance by allowing InternetExplorer to search the cache without actually looking at eachindividual page stored in the cache.
To view the contents of these folders, you need to go intoInternet Explorer (or right click on the Internet Explorer 3icon) and bring up the "Properties." Go to the "Advancedtab," and click on "View Files" under the "TemporaryInternet Files" subheading. It will show as one big folder,even though it is a combination of the four. The advancedtab can also be found under the options area of the Viewmenu pulldown.
You can also see the contents of the "temporary Internetfiles" directory through Windows Explorer, but it takes a bitof clicking. It's likely if you locate the directory through thismethod it will appear that the directory is empty. You'll wantexplore the different switches and buttons under the Optionsitem under the View menu to see all the file data.
The data files that won't go away (even after you've askedExplorer to delete all the cache files) stick around for areason. "The nine files you are likely to see under there are aseries of cookies," Jeremy Schmuland, a help desk tech atGE Capital in Edmonton explained.
In fact these aren't even cookie files as such, they arereferences to cookies stored in the \windows \cookiesdirectory. So to delete them you have to go there.
Cookies contain information about sites visited and are usedto tell a Web server what you did last time you were on itspage. Explorer "assumes that you will probably want those incase you go back to that site and therefore does not deletethem," said Schmuland.
Each cookie has an expiry date and they are eventuallydeleted by the system.
If you really want to physically see the cache directories thengo into DOS mode, navigate to the "temporary internet files"directory under c:\windows and use the "dir/a" command toreveal them.
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