Re: Safe to delete? Temporary Internet Files

If you are using Internet Explorer, go to Tools / Options and delete these
items from there. You can also adjust your settings so that the temporary
items do not grow to this size in the future.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"SilentBob" <> wrote in message
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>
> After realising how much my hard drive was full, I tried looking around
> what was taking all the place.
> After unhiding the files in
> "_C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows_ ", I was shocked to
> see that the folder Temporary Internet Files
> (_C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ Temporary_Internet_Files_)
> had over 46000 files, taking over 86GB of my hard drive.
> To my knowledge, "Temporary Internet Files" are *temporary* and safe to
> delete. Since my knowledge is restricted and may be very wrong, I
> decided to ask you guys (or girls) if it really is.
>
> Thats it and thanks!
>
> EDIT/UPDATE: After opening the folder, I did CTRL+A to select all the
> files and saw that even though both hidden and protected files are set
> to be shown, I had only around 2900 files selected instead of the 46000
> I expected. Anyone can help me with this?
>
>
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