How big is your Temporary Internet Files folder?

[ScriptFlipper]

I just noticed my temp folder has 12,383 files in it and consumes 166mb of my disk space... So, how big is yours? :P

[REEF·]

I clean it up like every week from now.

The first time I did disk cleanup - it gave me back a gigabyte :thumb:.

[kirupa]

Mine is 169MB and it contains 14,955 files. I bet half of the 169MB came from looking at SOTW entries haha :P

[ScriptFlipper]

Sharif: whoa, that's extremely big... before you cleaned it, that is ;)

lol @ kirupa ;)
hasn't you got school-stuff to do? :P

[kirupa]

lol @ kirupa ;)
hasn't you got school-stuff to do? I've been out of school for 3 weeks now :P

[berkoWitZ]

last time I did a disk cleanup was like a year ago :ne:

[ScriptFlipper]

I've been out of school for 3 weeks now :P

We finished last week on friday :)

[Krilnon]

Mine's only 20MB, but that's because I'm crazy about disk space and clean it at least once a day.

[wizard]

Mine is cleaned every time I start up the web brower, so there's probably about five files in there right now.

[r3v0lut1on]

same here.

[Johnny64]

Well do I have a story to tell :!:
I cleaned my Temporary Internet Files out way back. Well that's what I thought but Microsucks keept some secret log with IE (I had stop using IE a while earlier) that explorer could not see. But when I when to the addressbar and added /content.ie5/ to it, there was about 16 more folders in there. I only checked one of them and it had like ~1500000 files in it.:scream:

So I started deleting them all, I spent a sunday doing that. At the end I got 9gigabyte more space on my C. The worst is the this wasn't my Temporary Internet Files but some stupid log!?!

So burn IE:bad: Long live FireFox :party:

[ScriptFlipper]

Yup, that's the secret IE temp folder ;)
But geeeeez - 9 gig? that's harsh! Boooooourns M$

[unikrl8]

Firefox is bad in my book because it's visibility property through javascript is broken :-(

but (http://www.domainkarl.com/menu/) I have 4,480 files

[evolution]

i haven't emptied mine since I had to reboot my whole system, which was like 2 years ago. Their is something like 22,000 files. :)

[T-O]

5.3 gig.. :P

[bwh2]

i clean mine like once or twice a day. i'm sort of compulsive w/it. i limit it to 20 mb, but it never gets that high.

[Krilnon]

Master64, what is the path to that directory?

Is it:

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

?

[Johnny64]

Master64, what is the path to that directory?

Is it:

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

? yup

that what i did.
Well that only works in XP and 2000 i think the MS os's that don't have DOS any more. The older one's you have to do it throw DOS.:)

[minimalistik]

i limit the storage to 10mb. Although if you increase it, you would be able to store more of course but its a pain when you actually want to empty it.

[radioxromance]

wow why didn't I know about this? I'm fairly certain I;ve been to that folder... I thought I would have cleaned it out... I have 63.6 MBs of crap in there thanks guys!

[tucker]

how do i clean my secret files (grrrrrrrrrrr stupid computer secrets.....grrrrr........grrrrrrrrGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRR)

[minimalistik]

how do i clean my secret files (grrrrrrrrrrr stupid computer secrets.....grrrrr........grrrrrrrrGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRR)


Are you talking about files that are hidden on your computer and you want to delete them? If you are:

My computer>tools>folder options>"view tab">"show all files"

I think that might be the answer but dont think its what your after heheeh. You can use disk cleanup or some other utilty application like Norton CleanSweep which cleans unnecessary files like any other program.

[radioxromance]

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
This was already posted, don't know if these are the 'secret' files you mean. Open a folder, like my docs, copy paste that url and then change the username to your own, it will show the folders. Delete them. Might need to close apps (I had to close aim as it was using it).

[bwh2]

i limit the storage to 10mb. Although if you increase it, you would be able to store more of course but its a pain when you actually want to empty it.

yeah, on my parents computer, they have it set to 1192 mb, which i think was the default. god was that a paint to empty b/c windows explorer stopped responding if you tried to select all>delete.