From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 13, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Re: Ask Leo Question - where are temporary internet files?
>
> Leo,
> Hello Leo, I hope you can help with this. I am pretty new to computers
> and can't understand the jargon yet, so if you answer this question,
> can you please explain in plain terms. Since getting the new version of
> internet explorer, I have found that I can no longer go into control
> panel, performance and maintenance, then click on disk clean up, then
> highlight temporary internet files, I would get all the little folders
> that used to be there. With the old version of internet explorer I
> could get all these little folders and open them to see all the things
> that I had been looking at on the internet, then if there was anything
> of interest, ie, a picture, or a map, or anything of interest to me, I
> could click on it and save it to documents. But now with this new
> version, I just get a logo that says index, if I click on it to try to
> open whatever is there, it just wont open in anything, nor can I see
> anything in preview, yet there are over 103,686 Kb of items in there
> somewhere, but I cannot see the little folders with all the items in
> them no more. Is there anything I can do to get these folders again and
> see all the items that are in them, and save anything of interest to my
> documents, or would I have to get rid of the new version of internet
> explorer, and go back to the old one, in order to see all the items in
> the little folders? This is a very frustrating problem, but one that I
> can't work out, so I do hope you can help with this, and many thanks.
I believe this will get you where you want to be:
In IE7, hit the Tools menu, Internet Options item. Under the General
tab is a section labeled "Browsing History" - click on Settings in that
section. On the resulting dialog should be a button "View files" that
should open Windows Explorer on the temporary files.
Good luck!
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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