temporary internet files

I wanted to look at the stuff in temporary internet files so I went to
Internet Options, Temporary Internet Files and History Settings, and poked
"show files" and it displayed a little more than a screenful of files. None
of them had a remote URL, they all appeared to be from my local hard disk.
I brought up the properties dialog for the directory -- it was in something
like C:\users\<userid>\appdata\local\microsoft\windows -- and it said there
was over 100 meg of files in the directory, but the files it was showing
added up to less than 100K. I opened Folder Options and told it to display
protected operating system files, but that didn't help. What's the deal?
It knows it has all those files in there, why isn't it showing them?

Richard Delma wrote:
> I wanted to look at the stuff in temporary internet files so I went to
> Internet Options, Temporary Internet Files and History Settings, and poked
> "show files" and it displayed a little more than a screenful of files. None
> of them had a remote URL, they all appeared to be from my local hard disk.
> I brought up the properties dialog for the directory -- it was in something
> like C:\users\<userid>\appdata\local\microsoft\windows -- and it said there
> was over 100 meg of files in the directory, but the files it was showing
> added up to less than 100K. I opened Folder Options and told it to display
> protected operating system files, but that didn't help. What's the deal?
> It knows it has all those files in there, why isn't it showing them?
>
>

Exactly what problem are you trying to solve? It might help if you
mentioned why you have this concern.

Tim