Internet cache
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Does anybody know where I might find the cache for icons associated with webpages? The icons must be stored somewhere localy as they are used even when the PC is offline. I have looked in the most obvious place namely the "temporary internet files" folder, but there are no icons of any type in there. Infact I was surprised with the lack of files stored in there, since I have never explicitly cleared it.
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Does anybody know where I might find the cache for icons associated with webpages? The icons must be stored somewhere localy as they are used even when the PC is offline. I have looked in the most obvious place namely the "temporary internet files" folder, but there are no icons of any type in there. Infact I was surprised with the lack of files stored in there, since I have never explicitly cleared it.
This is becomong more and more confusing. Since I posted the message I have monitoring the temporary internet files, while at the same time going about my day to day surfing. There are some files I expect to see in that folder, especially files from locations such as codeproject, hotmail and google. But there are none! Infact the folders item's have not changed at all, even after a few reeboots. The favicon problem aside, this is making me a little worried about just how safe vista really is. The images/pages are obviously being stored ( the pages load quite fast ) but there is no visible cache :~
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Does anybody know where I might find the cache for icons associated with webpages? The icons must be stored somewhere localy as they are used even when the PC is offline. I have looked in the most obvious place namely the "temporary internet files" folder, but there are no icons of any type in there. Infact I was surprised with the lack of files stored in there, since I have never explicitly cleared it.
I eventualy found the solution. IE7 reports the temporary internet folder being:
C:\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet FilesThis was confirmed with a call toSHGetFolderPath. But browsing this folder does NOT show content downloaded from the internet. What it does show is local content from apps like MSDN 'Document explorer'. Selecting "view hidden files and folders" and "show system files and folders" is of no help here. After some browsing, I discovered that while IE7 is in protected mode, it reads and writes a special Low version of everything. This may be a bug in vista or simply a setting somewhere, but viewing these items is not easy. The real location of the temporary internet files isC:\Users\$USER$\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5The same goes for theCookies,HistoryandTempfolders. I hope this is of use to somebody.