# Temporary Internet Files in XP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-internet-files-in-xp/113696>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-internet-files-in-xp/113696 "2002-06-12T19:26:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-internet-files-in-xp/113696/1 "2002-06-12T19:26:12Z")

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HELP!!!

I was clearing out rubbish from my hard drive to defrag it, including the temporary internet files (TIF from now on), but if I do ‘Properties’ on TIF folder in local settings it says there’s still 500 MB in it. After checking a couple of websites, I deleted the contents of ‘content.ie5’, but still no luck. So I copied the whole folder onto the desktop to see what was in it, where I found a 400 MB video file, but when I search for that, it doesn’t find it in the original TIF folder.

Is there any way of completely deleting all the TIF files?

Thanks in advance,

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**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-internet-files-in-xp/113696/2 "2002-06-12T23:07:10Z")

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Forgot to mention - the max size for the folder is 150MB