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Temporary Internet Files

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#1 ·
I cleared my Temporary Internet Files before I ran Microsoft Security Essentials. Even so, it took 7 hours to run MSE, scanning over 2,160,000 items. And most of those items scanned were in this folder that I can't access:

C:\users\mynamehere\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\TemporaryInternetFiles\Low\Content.IE5\blahblahblah

What is that stuff and how do I get rid of it? All I can see are about 100 cookies that are left as Temporary Internet Files after I clean it the normal way through Tools>Internet Options>BrowsingHistory>Delete.

Thanks in advance!

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Ellen
 
#2 ·
I'd echo GiveMeAbreak's suggestion.
Try CCleaner. Do not use the registry cleaner section (at all.)
You may find this link more useful.
http://download.piriform.com/ccsetup316.exe

However, I doubt that most of the scanning was in the temporary internet files folder. Windows 7 is quite big, and it takes time to scan that much data.
 
#3 ·
okay, will give it a try and will avoid the registry cleaner because I acknowledge that I don't know what I'm doing. the scanning was definitely in the temporary internet file folder that I specified. I've been obsessing over this, spent a lot of time watching the scan over the 7 hours.

Ellen
 
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