Hi Owen
Every time I go to Internet Properties/Temporary Internet Files/Delete
Files and purge the folder, it takes a long time, sometimes over half
an hour. Why does it take so long to delete those files? Is my copy of
IE malfunctioning or am I doing some wrong?
Try the following and see if it helps:
How to Empty IE Cache
Description of the Internet Explorer Cache
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers3.htm#Cache
Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
In XP, if you open TIF either direct in Explorer or via the TIF
Settings button - 'view files' in Internet Options, the contents of
Cookies is included. They are not deleted though if you use the
'Delete files' in Internet Options - there is a separate Delete
Cookies button.
(Aside - the above Delete Files and Delete Cookies buttons are also in
the IE6 and IE SP1 on the Tools | Internet Options | General tab)
Per Wesley Vogel:
When you empty the Temporary Internet Files folder in Internet
Explorer, files that start with the word "Cookie" may remain in the
folder.
These files are pointers to the actual cookies that are located in
the Windows\Cookies folder. To retain the association between these
pointers and the actual cookie files, they are not deleted when you
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder. However, if you manually
delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, both
the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie file located in the
Cookies folder are deleted.
and...........
See
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies and
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree
If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.
Hope this helps
Jan
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