Where are the Internet Explorer Temporary Files are Located

These days I see many people wondering where exactly the Browser Temporary files are located at ??

Internet Explorer 7

best way to reach to that is, Click Tools under Internet Explorer

Internet Options

Now Please Click Internet Options

Internet Options

Now Click Settings under the Browser History…

Now at the Next pop up window it will show you the Path for browser Temporary file folder location will give a button to reach it from there with Single Click…

IE7 Temporary File Location

This applies to any Version of Windows, like Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista…

Choto Cheeta on September 22, 2007 | Filed Under Computer, Windows

4 Comments

deschain  on August 30th, 2008

I’m sorry but this isn’t very helpful. I may just be venting, but I’ve gone through 5 pages of google searches with the same result. I don’t even care if you don’t publish this comment.

The problem is IE7. There is no problem with earlier versions of IE.

Try doing what you just outlined above. Visit a site like youtube and watch a short video. Play the video again — you realise it doesn’t need to be downloaded again, right? Because it’s already stored on your hard disk.

Go to your “temporary internet files” folder. Try to look for it.

It won’t be there.

Neither will there be files relating to other sites you visit — pictures, html pages, flash files, etc.

deschain  on August 30th, 2008

Alright. After searching some more, I’ve found the solution to my problem.

I thought I might add it here in case anyone else stumbles across it.

Apparently there are two types of IE7 running around. One is not in “protected” mode and the above information (in the main blog post) works fine.

For the “protected” mode, you need to do a couple more things.

1. On any folder window –> Tools –> Folder Options
2. Select “Show hidden files” and UNCHECK “hide protected files”
3. Go to the “temporary internet files” folder. It should usually be:
C:\Users\**USERNAME**\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\
where **USERNAME** is the name of the folder you have.
4. Manually type in as an add-on to that address:
Low\Content.IE5

So the overall address is:
C:\Users\**USERNAME**\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\

In this folder, you should be able to see a number of subfolders with weird numbers+letters. Some are empty; some have content in them, probably the hidden ones.

Anyway, within these folders, you’ll find the usual content of temporary internet files. Eg picture files, pages, etc.

tony clifton  on January 10th, 2009

I very much appreciated deschain’s comments, I would never have known to add the req’d folder names to find my temp files…and after having read his last comment re: venting, yeah, I never did. That is, I found some of them but certainly not all and not the vid I just watched which I wanted to save.
Microsoft are such a bunch of [insert adjective]‘s, I cannot believe it. In other versions of IE, I could simply use explorer to find videos etc and save them but oh, no, not with IE 7. What is wrong with the MS outfit…are they insane or trying to drive everyone else there.

tony clifton  on January 10th, 2009

…just realized the comment I referred to as deschain’s last comment was in fact his first. So, I don’t know…I added the folder entries and found the folders I’m accustomed to seeing but the youtube vid I just watched from the saucertube website is not there; it has d/loaded as per the activity on the vid playbar and my modem/router, yet I cannot locate it on my disk in order to save it. Now I have to manually d/load it again.
My comments re: MS stand…I believe they are completely intolerable. Who designs an o/s which is not backward compatible with pgms that ran on previous o/s’s??

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