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Theres several places where Vista stores Temporary Internet Files and there are no files ever within the folder and no folders and its set to show hidden files and folders so why are they missing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

I guess I should point out these are roaming profiles and the temp internet files have been pulled out of the profile folder into the home directory that does not roam.

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 ...

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 ...

A file created by an application for its own purposes. In the days of limited main memory, temporary files were the only way to store large amounts of interim data that the application was generating.