[24hoursupport] Re: Temporary Files
- From: "michele" <michele@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:53:06 -0500
>>the temporary internet files are cookies, emails, programs wav's and
other=
files that were downloaded.
the Temp files are files created when a program or application is=
installed.<<
I guess I did know that but I'd forgotten the difference. Those files are
making me nuts so I hope someone can help. I'll apologize in advance for
the length of this post.
I have Win98 and IE5. Over the past two weeks, my system has slowed down
and has begun to stutter to a stop frequently. When it does, the cursor
freezes and Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work so I have to shut off with the power
button and then go through the blue screen and Scan Disk when I reboot.
Scan Disk has never found an error. My resources have dropped to 52% so
I've been doing a lot of maintenance and trying to figure out what the
problem is. Sometimes, I can hear the hard drive grinding away but I can't
see what it's doing.
I run Scan Disk periodically but it never seems to delete the temporary
internet files. I also go in and manually delete selected cookies once in
awhile but they don't stay gone. The next time I look, they're back. Last
night, I was looking through the Windows files and discovered something odd
(in addition to finding that a lot of the files listed are empty). In
particular, I looked at three folders:
C:\Windows\Cookies
This held a lot of cookies - no surprise.
C:\Windows\TEMP\Temporary Internet Files
Content IE5
0pqvglij
1jhn7eel
4bbwy9yy
Kdiz0p27
C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
Content IE5
67bkyaed
81evsta3
C9qr8xu3
Gpm3kdu3
Idehap0I
Kqu1e41q
Ov4rwvgt
P7sip647
Sp6iahj3
Vo9nvat1
Wby589kz
Wd2n8x2j ***
Wpif0p2v
X1779w1h ***
Xsgcg52g
Zqnrgi63
With the exception of the two I asterisked, every one of those letter&number
files contained a duplicate copy of the same thing - hundreds of cookies.
The other two contain 2.75MB (5,422 objects) of the same thing - many files
with two digit numbers starting with 1 and hundreds more that start with CA
followed by numbers and letters. They all show 0 KB so appear to be empty.
There are also dozens of files with .jpg and .gif extensions that appear to
be from the Net and some text files that are from e-mails. I don't know
what they're doing there so I left them alone.
I manually deleted all the cookie files. I went back and looked at all
those files above and they were all empty (except the two I starred). About
that time, the computer froze up. After I rebooted, I went back and looked
at the files and they were all full of the same cookies again.
Here's where it gets really weird. I deleted all the cookies again. Then I
went to the Net and went to sites where I need passwords to see if my system
would find the cookies somewhere. It didn't. I had to reenter the
passwords. Then I went back and looked at those "empty" files again and,
gasp, they now each had a duplicate copy of temporary internet files! So I
ran Scan Disk again and told it to delete them - and this time it did. BUT
all those files *now* have duplicate copies of the few cookies in
C:\Windows\Cookies.
My daughter says I need an exorcist. Can anyone suggest anything a little
less drastic? I am completely baffled and also would like to free up the
space.
Thank you for reading all this!
Michele
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