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Internet Logs under Windows XP

corkyg

corkyg

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Can someone explain the purpose of the files in this folder under \Windows in XP? They tend to build up with *.TMP files over time - and each file is over 30 MB! To the best of my knowledge, *.tmp files should be removed on shutdown. This does not seem to happen. Anyway - I freed up nearly two GB of HDD space just by manually deleting them with Explorer. The system doesn't seem to care one bit - in fact, it runs better without them.

According to the XP Help files, these relate to Windows XP's built-in firewall - which I do not have installed or running. So why the files?
 
Just one bumpity bump - but I guess this may belong in the "Highly Technical" forum?
 
*Any* application can write temporary files. And yes, a well-behaved app should delete them.

Your mission is to find out what app is writing these files. It takes good old-fashioned troubleshooting.
 
Try running AdAware and see if you come up with something like "client to client net phone". If you do, remove that puppy and see if your problem stops.

Then download RegVac and run it and see if you get about 1000 registry entries deleted relating t the same spyware you just deleted with AdAware.
 
All good tips - but I know what is writing them. I just don't know why. It is WinXP and IE. AdAware came up with a clean bill of health.

Guess I will pursue the Microsoft KB library. All research to date indicates that they are used by Win XP's native Firewall - but that is not installed. Could it be a bug?
 
How do you "know" IE is writing them? Internet Explorer doesn't keep "log" files in any folder other than the Temporary Internet Files folder, as far as I know (and the History folder of course).

What folder exactly is it? If the folder is named "Internet Logs" then it's not IE, I've never even seen such a folder name. It sounds more like some other application. Possibly something that isn't "spyware" so Ad-Aware doesn't bring it up. I looked at the XP help files and the only logs that the firewall writes go to a file named pfirewall.log, which then rotates old log files by adding a numbered extension to the end (pfirewall.log.1, et cetera).

No indications in the MS Knowledge Base that this is a function of any MS software either. I found ONE result on Google Groups search related to this folder, a post to a Microsoft support group, where a tech replied that it's safe to delete any TMP files, and XP won't let you delete any files it's using. However he didn't elaborate on whether that folder meant anything to XP or not, so I doubt he knew and was simply saying it's safe to delete TMP files.


Scratch that. I found one result that explains it. Do you have Zone Alarm installed, or had it at one time?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Internet+Log%22+XP+tmp&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3C576DC8.5080300%40softville.com&rnum=3
 
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