What is Content.IE5?This is a folder in the Windows directory where Internet Explorer stores temporary internet files. These files are stored in order to access frequently visited WebPages faster. It prevents Internet Explorer to download the whole webpage every time you go to a certain webpage. For instance if you go to www.wintipz.com/index.htm for the very first time your computer would store the images found on this webpage so that they do not have to be downloaded again when you visit it sometime later. It might be harder and more time consuming if the Wintipz server was located in India and the visitor was accessing the webpage from the United States of America. More information had to be downloaded if there was no Temporary Internet Files folder present on your computer. So every time a new request to www.wintipz.com/index.htm is made your computer would compare the webpage content that is locally stored (usually) under C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 and that present on the Wintipz server. If both the files are same then you would not be required to download the same content again thus resulting in much faster web page access. But sometimes you end up storing too much under the temporary internet files folder which also degrades your internet access speeds. Since there is so much content locally, your computer takes longer to search for the same content present in the webpage than it would take to actually download the same content. So it is advisable that you do not store too much locally. Generally a rule of thumb decided by Internet Explorer by default is approx. 10% of your hard disk space. But these days the size of the hard drive is so big that 10% is a lot. I think 200MB is enough. You can set this figure through Internet Explorer Options.
Open Internet Explorer---> Goto Tools ----> Internet Options
Under Temporary Internet Files Section click on settings.
Amount of disk space to use = 200MB
To delete the files already present in C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
Open Internet Explorer---> Goto Tools ----> Internet Options
Under Temporary Internet Files Section click on Delete Files. You will get the below dialog box. Check the box next to Delete all offline content and then click on OK. This will delete all offline content from your computer and empty C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 folder.
