Temporary Internet Files

[Adam Brody]

Nothing bad will happen.
You cannot see the "cache" directories (as you know) in windows. IE 3.02
created(es) those subdirectories as needed. If you were to go into the
View/Options full down and select the tab for Temporary Internet files you
should be able to delete the contents of the folder.

[P Hurst]

Why does Windows 95 (in "my computer" and "Windows Explorer") show the
folder "Windows" located on my C-drive. In the folder is a number of
folders one of which is named "Temporary Internet Files". This folder
shows various .gif and .ipg files from the internet but no other folders.

DOS shows c:\windows\tempor~1\cache1 subdirectory as well as cache2, 3 and
4. These subdirectories show files some of which are the .gif and .ipg
files shown by Windows 95. The other files are mm2048.dat and mm256.dat
and other various files that have been downloaded from the internet. None
of these files are shown in Windows 95.

I reinstalled (refreshed) Windows 95 and there was no change. Shouldn't
Windows 95 show the cache1, cache2, etc. folders as well as all the files?
Any suggestions as to why Windows does not show the folders and these
files? What will happen if I delete these files in DOS?

I have an AMD K5 133 mHz processor with 16 MB RAM, a Seagate 2.1 Gb hard
drive, a S3 3D Virge video card, Viewsonic 15E Monitor, Dual floppy drives,
NEC 6x4 CD-ROM, Rockwell 33.6 modem, AW32 Pro Audio Card. I use Internet
Explorer 3.02. My Windows 95 version is 4.00.950.

[Kestutis Sipavicius]

P Hurst <phu...@cass.net> wrote...

> Why does Windows 95 (in "my computer" and "Windows Explorer") show
the folder "Windows" located on my C-drive. In the folder is a number
of
folders one of which is named "Temporary Internet Files". This folder
shows various .gif and .ipg files from the internet but no other
folders. DOS shows c:\windows\tempor~1\cache1 subdirectory as well as

cache2 3 and 4. These subdirectories show files some of which are the

.gif and .ipg files shown by Windows 95. The other files are
mm2048.dat and mm256.dat and other various files that have been
downloaded from the internet. None of these files are shown in Windows
95.
I reinstalled (refreshed) Windows 95 and there was no change.
Shouldn't
Windows 95 show the cache1, cache2, etc. folders as well as all the
files?

1. You should see all the "Temporary Internet Files" in its special
folder, not only the graphics. Try to digit in start/run REGSVR32
CACHEVU.DLL
If this does not work, reinstall I. E., this takes less than 5 minutes.

2. Another alternative is to do a Find in the "Temporary Internet
Files" folder, you will see allthe files of the 4 caches there.

Any suggestions as to why Windows does not show the folders and these
files? What will happen if I delete these files in DOS?

The main usage of the cache files is to avoid redrawing of Internet
page already downloaded.
Many people like to delete them all.
I delete most, I stay with 400/500 after each sleaning.
--
From Sao Paulo Brazil A son of Lithuanians
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[Hustler]

Hello,

What you are seeing is normal behavior. The Temporary Internet Files folder
is the location that Internet Explorer stores its cached files.

The folder is a bit different than most, as you are seeing. The desktop.ini
file is what tells Windows not to display the individual cache1, 2, 3,4
folders. This, of course, is to make browing through the cache and emptying
the cache a bit easier, and for the most part the individual folders'
contents are very similar.

See here for more info on how IE caches web pages:

http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q153/4/85.htm
"How Internet Explorer 3.0 Caches Web Pages"

Here is an excerpt from the IE4.txt file that explains a little as well:

--------------------------------
OVERVIEW OF THE CACHE STRUCTURE
===============================

With the latest release of Internet Explorer and the Internet SDK,
it is expected that many different programs will take advantage of
the caching support provided. This means that there could be
thousands of URLs downloaded and kept in the cache.

Having thousands of URLs cached into a single directory causes
performance to degrade on computers running Windows 98, which uses
the FAT file system. There are two primary reasons:

- There is a linear search algorithm in FAT to look up a directory
entry.

- The in-memory structure of the directory entry caching used by
FAT does not work by directory but by individual file, causing
it to access the disk more often.

This is the main reason there are multiple directories in the
cache. Internet Explorer directs each URL into one of the multiple
directories (buckets), where the downloaded data is kept in the
form of a file. An index entry is created in the index file(s)
in that directory.

For more information about caching or how to use Internet Explorer,
click the Help menu in Internet Explorer.
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P Hurst wrote in article <01bc9562$b1e46440$159888ce@phurst>...

>Why does Windows 95 (in "my computer" and "Windows Explorer") show the
>folder "Windows" located on my C-drive. In the folder is a number of
>folders one of which is named "Temporary Internet Files". This folder
>shows various .gif and .ipg files from the internet but no other folders.
>

>DOS shows c:\windows\tempor~1\cache1 subdirectory as well as cache2, 3 and

>4. These subdirectories show files some of which are the .gif and .ipg
>files shown by Windows 95. The other files are mm2048.dat and mm256.dat
>and other various files that have been downloaded from the internet. None
>of these files are shown in Windows 95.
>
>I reinstalled (refreshed) Windows 95 and there was no change. Shouldn't
>Windows 95 show the cache1, cache2, etc. folders as well as all the files?

>Any suggestions as to why Windows does not show the folders and these
>files? What will happen if I delete these files in DOS?
>