can't find pictures that picture viewer shows

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Hello
When people send me emails with pictures attached, I click on the picture
and picture viewer opens and displays the pictures. As I scroll thru them,
other pictures are in there from past emails that I never saved to my
computer. When I go to My Pictures folder, they are not in there and I don't
know where to go on my computer to find these pictures and delete them as I
cannot find Windows Picture Viewer as a program on my computer to open and
when I'm in viewer, it doesn't have the option to change the view and see
things as a filmstrip to delete everything. Where are these pictures?
Thank you.
 
bnc said:
Hello
When people send me emails with pictures attached, I
click on the picture and picture viewer opens and
displays the pictures. As I scroll thru them, other
pictures are in there from past emails that I never saved
to my computer. When I go to My Pictures folder, they
are not in there and I don't know where to go on my
computer to find these pictures and delete them as I
cannot find Windows Picture Viewer as a program on my
computer to open and when I'm in viewer, it doesn't have
the option to change the view and see things as a
filmstrip to delete everything. Where are these
pictures?
Thank you.
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Try emptying your Temporary Internet Files folder:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897


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This will happen when you open a picture file (or any file) from e-mail and
you do not save the e-mail, you just delete the e-mail. When you do this,
the attached file is saved in a subfolder of your temporary internet file
folder.

If these are files were downloaded from e-
mail, they may be in a subfolder of your Internet temporary files. The
folder
name will start with OLK and there will be a number after OLK. The easiest
way to find this folder it is to search for OLK* and once found open it and
see if the
files are there.
Click on Start and Search and then
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders
In the top textbox "All or part..." type in exactly this
OLK*
and click search
This search will take a while but should return all
folders starting with
OLK.
Open the folders, change the view to Thumbnails and see
if the unwanted
files are there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from there also. Or, hold the Shift
key down when you delete them in order to prevent them from going into your
Recycle bin.
 
OK, I have done both things. Deleting Temp Internet files doesn't do it.
And I do not have an OLK folder. Any other ideas?
 
My apologies, I reread your search instructions and had not checked to search
hidden files, and lo and behold, there it is, the old OLK folder with all
that stuff in it! THANK YOU!
 
No problem. Glad it worked.


bnc said:
My apologies, I reread your search instructions and had not checked to
search
hidden files, and lo and behold, there it is, the old OLK folder with all
that stuff in it! THANK YOU!
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