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Hi all,<BR><BR>Was perusing my drive looking to clean things up. I find a folder under 'documents and settings' called "temporary internet files". I am using space monger to see them and can double ...

As you browse the Web, your computer stores temporary Internet files from each Web page you visit so that the next time you visit those same pages they will load quicker because the images and other ...

Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to delete ...

Q I am unable to right-click on an image on a Web page and save the .jpg or .bmp photo files as I used to do. A message comes up with the exclamation point in a yellow triangle reading, “This function ...

Every email attachment in Microsoft Outlook, when sent or downloaded, leaves temporary files on your Windows PC. These temp files get stuck in the temporary files folder. It is very important to ...

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded ...

Sis has discovered her emails (she uses webmail and accesses through IE6 on WinXP) are being cached in the Temporary Internet Files folder.<BR><BR>The computer is partially shared with roommate and ...