[24hoursupport] Temporary Files; "Toss Your Cookies"; new Ad-Aware
- From: our kitty <sweetiepie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 08:32:09 -0500
Hi,
I'm not as knowledgeable as Mike, but wanted to add a brief note;
'Toss Your Cookies' can find and delete cookies.
For Toss Your Cookies, go to
http://www.easycoolsoftware.com/cookies.html
Cheers,
Raphael
Mike wrote:
>
> Hi Michele,
> 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.
> the files are unpacked by the installer then used to install the program..
> Some programs do not do a good job of Uninstalling the files after an=
> installation.
> If a program is saving backups, they may end up in the temp files.
> Or if you are saving files without specifying the location, they may end up=
> in the temp.
>
> The temp internet file holds a unremovable file called index.dat which=
> stores your commonly used cookies and sites.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
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> On 08/05/2002 at 9:56 PM michele wrote:
>
> I have two questions about temporary files. I use Scan Disk on a regular
> basis and delete the temporary files. What exactly are these and how do
> they differ from "temporary internet files"? I've been assuming that these
> were one and the same. However, when I used Windows Explorer to look at=
> the
> contents of the temporary internet files folder, there were 57MB of stuff=
> in
> there.
>
> I went to IE>Tools>Internet Options and told it to delete the temporary
> files but nothing happened. The files are still there, even after a=
> reboot.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Michele
>
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