Internet Temp, Internet History folders - Where are they?

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@Bessie wrote:

She is also telling me that it is only Dell Computers that don't have them!

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Bessie,

Osprey4 is dead on the money.  Go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ folder (where username is your current user folder (Username can be different from login name if you changed your login name in Control Panel User Settings after XP was set up).  You will find all types of temporary files.  I quite often scan through mine to find animated icons, pictures and graphics for personal use in graphic presentations.

Think about it a minute.  If Windows XP on a Dell was different from HP, eMachines, Compaq, Acer, IBM, or any other computer manufacturer, how could they all use the same Microsoft Windows Update site?   

Tony

Bessie,

Reviewing our responses, I think one of us should have mentionned earlier that to be able to see the Local Settings folder, you should first go to Start|Control Panel|Folder Options and check the "Show hidden files and folders" option and Apply the change. 

Tony

Message Edited by tgsmith on 03-15-2006 06:44 AM

Oh, yes, the old hidden folders trick. I completely forgot.

Two things I always set in folder options (From Explorer, Tools, Folder Options) in the View tab. Check Show Hidden Files and Folders, and uncheck Hide file extensions for known file types.

You can always tell the old-timers. We use Explorer rather than my computer, we call everything a directory (not a folder), and we want to see everything.

Thanks to all.  Osprey - I, too, am an oldie and use Windows Explorer.  Before that I used File Managerl!  I do have the Show Hidden Folders checked as well as show extentions, etc.  I also knew Windows and Internet Explorer is the same no matter what brand computer you put it on.  The lady I am getting these Dell bashes from is someone I have never met in person - she lives nearly 1000 miles from me.  She also thinks Dell loaded Windows Media Player wrong and wants them to fix it!  The problems her friend's Dell is having does sound funky but I suspect that user has been messing around with his files.  Some years back my own husband would sit at his computer and delete files he didn't think he needed not knowing at all what he was doing.  That was first with Windows 95 and then again with Windows ME when he got HIS first Dell.  He would get himself in trouble and have to keep reloading Windows.  That worked some of the time but you and I both know it is not a good idea to mess around like that.  Eventually there had to be clean installs to make things come back to life.  He now has Windows XP and I think he is leaving his files be.

Thanks for being there.

Bessie   

Message Edited by Bessie on 03-15-2006 05:37 PM

Thanks, joe53.  I had never tried to understand that.  I'll make note of it.

Bessie