Photo Viewer

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When I view pictures in an email, XP opens "Windows
Picture & Fax Viewer". In that viewer are hundreds of
images from websites and the like. I want to know how to
access that folder and delete all the images at once
instead of one at a time in the viewer. I have looked all
over my pc for the folder and I cannot find it anywhere.
Once I delete the pics, I need to know how to turn that
function off so it doesn't happen again. Have a great day
and I appreciate any help you can offer.

Brett Allen
Atlanta, Ga.
 
I suspect it is the Internet temp folder, right-click your browser, properties,
delete files.
 
Thanks for the try Mary, but I keep my temp folder cleaned
out 3-4 times a week. Those files are not in there.
 
-----Original Message-----
When I view pictures in an email, XP opens "Windows
Picture & Fax Viewer". In that viewer are hundreds of
images from websites and the like. I want to know how to
access that folder and delete all the images at once
instead of one at a time in the viewer. I have looked all
over my pc for the folder and I cannot find it anywhere.
Once I delete the pics, I need to know how to turn that
function off so it doesn't happen again. Have a great day
and I appreciate any help you can offer.

Brett Allen
Atlanta, Ga.

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So you've "looked all over..." and can't find it anywhere?
That means that it must not exist, right? Has it occurred
to you to do a search for image files in order to find out
where the folder in question is? If you want to prevent
this from happening in the future, save e-mailed images to
a folder of your choice before viewing them.
 
Outlook likes to create its own temp folders, look for folders named
"OLKA43" or something like that, the first three letters should be OLK. On
my computer Outlook puts files here:

C:\Documents and Settings\davidshi\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLKA43

The best way to view email attachments or files you save from the web is to
save them to a folder of your choice first, then view them. Don't rely on
the temporary folder used by the browser or your email client. These folders
tend to fill up with junk.
 
David Shiflet is right they are probably under an OLK subfolder under your
Internet Temporary files folder. Mine is OLK9. It is not easy to navigate
there and delete these files.
Here is a way to do it.
Click on Start, click on Search, All files and folders.
Click on More advanced option and check the boxes Search System folders,
Search hidden files and folders and Search subfolders.
For file name, enter OLK (the first character is the letter O, not the
number 0)
and click Search.
The search results will display an OLK folder. Click on it to open it. Look
at the files. If these are the files you want to delete, just select all of
them and delete. They will go to the Recycle bin. Open the Recycle bin and
delete them from there also.
 
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So you've "looked all over..." and can't find it anywhere?
That means that it must not exist, right? Has it occurred
to you to do a search for image files in order to find out
where the folder in question is? If you want to prevent
this from happening in the future, save e-mailed images to
a folder of your choice before viewing them.
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Yes it actually occurred to me to do a search for the
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files to no avail. I exhausted all of my measures before
even posting to this forum. The images I am trying to
delete are from web sites. They are jpgs.,gif. and tif.
files that are saved onto my pc from different web sites.
I am only interested in deleting those images. I know how
to handle pictures that come in through email, but thanks
for trying to help.
 
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