Re: [Thinkpad] Deleting Internet Explorer on Win98SE

If you go to:
IE
Tools
General
Internet Options
Delete Files

Does it delete a lot of the gibberish ?

If you go to
IE
Tools
General
Internet Options
Settings
Amount of disk space to use
(set disk space to around 2 to 5 megabytes)

Does it retain less gibberish ?

-Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Deleting Internet Explorer on Win98SE

> Ok so there was a caffeine deficit resulting in my last message.
>
> in "temporary internet files" there is a subdirectory, hidden from
> DOS and Windows Explorer, named CONTENT.IE5. It contains tons of
> gibberish subdirectories.
>
> I am not running IE on this machine and yet these capacious sub
> directories keep being recreated. That is what i need to stop
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:51:42 -0700, Michael Geary wrote:
>
> >I have no idea what desktop.ie5 is, and both Google Web and Google Groups
> >searches turn up no matches at all. (There are a few dozen matches on
each
> >search, but they are all cases where the word "desktop" happens to be
> >followed by the word "ie5", no instances of "desktop.ie5" at all.)
> >
> >About the other items, are you sure they are using Mozilla? It sounds
like
> >they are actually running IE and perhaps not realizing it.
> >
> >As I mentioned, IE is used by many applications as an HTML viewing
> >component, but most applications that use it this way only display local
> >files, and disable things like scripting, ActiveX and the like.
> >
> >For example, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader use an embedded IE control
for
> >the "how to" panel. (I'm very familiar with this code because I wrote it.
> ><g>) But we don't go out to the Internet from this window at all. We just
> >display our own files which are located in Acrobat's Help folder. These
> >never go into Temporary Internet Files either; IE displays our local
files
> >directly from our installation folder.
> >
> >So we have a bit of a puzzle here!
>
>
>
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