Comments on: Finding the Temporary Internet Files folder

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:34 +0000

Elf, you’re partially right but you have the environment variable wrong. %userprofile% should not be preceded by C:\Users. Also, you could use the environment variable %localappdata% to take you to the Local folder directly.

Meanwhile, you’ll have a very hard time manipulating those files in their actual physical location, which is a series of randomly named subfolders in the folder you identified. The shell folder takes you to a unified view of them.

By: AudioElf

AudioElf — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:41:57 +0000

on the Microsoft website there is a free program, Process Monitor which you can set to monitor all file writes from internet explorer (iexplore.exe) and the exact path to the files it is writing to, ie:

C:\Users\%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 and the actual files are contained in the folders within Content.IE5

By: Hemi Inside

Hemi Inside — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:51:38 +0000

Everyone should know where the TempNetFiles folder is, it’s been in the same place since before windows98.

“C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”

Unless you use a user login, then…

“C:\Users\% type your User Profile here %\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”

Or where ever your OperatingSystem has it you can get to it through the…
ControlPanel, Network and Internet, Internet Options
Or Open InternetExplorer, then go to
Tools, Internet Options.
eg. here
http://www.f-prot.com/support/customer_service/38.html

But I have an actual problem,
Is anyone going to answer Michael and stupidstupidvistas Question?

“Temporary Internet Files folder has a virtualized folder in it and leads to no Temporary Internet Files. I only see cookies in my Temporary Internet Files folder accessing via Internet Options, never see any Internet Files. How can this problem be resolved to see Internet Files again?”.

I know they used to go there, because I used to go in and save the files and YouTube videos and things that you couldn’t get to through your browser. And delete the rest. Now I have to use page saving software, and I still have to download thing twice. Cos for about the past about 5months there has been nothing but cookies in there. And the files have to be going some where. I dont have it set up to delete them when ever I close the browser. So they must be somewhere. Vista has moved the folder to I dont know where

By: stupidstupidvista

stupidstupidvista — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:11:31 +0000

Hey, does anyone have an answer to MNichael’s question? my temporary internet files folder never has any files in it! it’s fustrating because i need to access some files in that folder and it’s non-existent, and no i haven’t been deleting any.. and i have looked in there at different times just to check if it was deleting them before i could get to it.. [if that makes any sense..]

By: Giz Galor

Giz Galor — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:39:26 +0000

BTW, if you still can’t see the folders then remember CMD is your friend:

If you want to get to these folders try this:

Start->Run->cmd

In the command box type this exactly:
cd %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\
Then type:
dir /a

You should see all the pesky folders listed.

By: Giz Galor

Giz Galor — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:36:12 +0000

I don’t get it, why does MS fight fire with gun powder??? Don’t they realise it only causes more problems!!!

By: stressedOverVista

stressedOverVista — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:15:16 +0000

Does someone have an answer to vistaNoob’s question?

I have files there too, but I can’t figure out how to even GET to the virtualized folder.

I did a dir *.zip /s > tempstuff.txt in a dos prompt, and found a bunch of .zipped files of IBM’s RAD that i downloaded to install. but I can’t find the files in my Documents folder, I found them in this ‘virtualized’ folder.. but cant get to them any way that I have found!

By: VistaNoob

VistaNoob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:13:03 +0000

Can files in C:\Users\%USERS%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users

Be deleted safely? Can it Eat Gigs from my hard drive since it copies just about everything on my pc!??

Please help!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:53:46 +0000

Temporary Internet Files folder has a virtualized folder in it and leads to no Temporary Internet Files. I only see cookies in my Temporary Internet Files folder accessing via Internet Options, never see any Internet Files. How can this problem be resolved to see Internet Files again?

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:47:58 +0000

Cam, I am not sure I understand the question. When you delete the temporary Internet files, they’re deleted. You might find them in the Recycle Bin, but I don’t think they go there. The point of deleting them is to delete them!

By: cam

cam — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:42:38 +0000

After you delete the temporary Internet files where do they
go and how can i find them.

By: Donna Long

Donna Long — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:10:56 +0000

When you find the temporary files in Vista, is it safe to delete them?

Thanks,
Donna

By: Gunluk Gazeteler

Gunluk Gazeteler — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:45:29 +0000

i was going to be crazy while trying to find it. Thank you so much

By: gregger

gregger — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:42:30 +0000

I found something surprising in Vista today when I was poking around in Disk Manager. I didn’t know you can now resize partitions in Vista without extra software. I was contemplating installing something else on my drive for a test drive. I found the article here that explains what’s going on… have you used it?
http://www.12noteweb.com/2007/02/28/disk-volume-shrink-extend-windows-vista/

TTFN

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