Re: How do TIFs (Temporary Internet Files) work?

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From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:49:29 -0600

Who is AdamT? He married to EveT?

Most of the TIFs will be empty except for index.dat and desktop.ini files.
Index.dat files will default to 16 or 32 KB when empty.

As near as I can track down
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files
is used occasionally instead of %userprofile% when you right click a file
and select Send To Mail Recipient. I can't figure out the rhyme or
reason, it is not consistent.

Default Local Disk Folders

Folder Name: Documents and Settings
Contents: Account information for each user who is granted access on the
computer. Each user account is represented by a subfolder assigned the
user name. Folders under each user account folder include My Documents,
Desktop, and Start Menu.

These include:
Documents and Settings\Administrator
Documents and Settings\All Users
Documents and Settings\Default User
Documents and Settings\LocalService
Documents and Settings\NetworkService
Documents and Settings\You

Administrator is for the built in Administrator account.

All Users is used for many things. Your Desktop and Start Menu, for
example, display what is in All Users *and* what is in your Desktop and
Start Menu folders.

Default User is used when creating new accounts.

The Local Service account is a special built-in account that has reduced
privileges similar to an authenticated local user account. The actual name
of the account is NT AUTHORITY\LocalService.

The Network Service account is a special built-in account that has reduced
privileges similar to an authenticated user account. The actual name of the
account is NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService.

The LocalService and NetworkService accounts perform things like
synchronizing the time, running services, system maintenance, etc.

From Small Potato.

<quote>
Just for more information, Local Service and Network Service accounts
are created for security reasons.

In Windows 2000/NT, system services are launched with "Local System"
credential, which has system-wide privilege as Administrator. So if the
service was attacked, attackers gain the privilege of Local System can
perform system-wide attack.

So Windows XP introduced Local Service and Network Service accounts for
system services. Both run with unprivileged "Limited Users" credential
instead of having full system rights, but Local Service access Windows
network using null sessions, i.e., it uses anonymous credential, while
Network Service access Windows network with the computer account, just
like Local System.

For more information, you may refer to this article:

The Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/serversecurity/serviceaccount/default.mspx
<quote>

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:e$9J2qk0GHA.4796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Michel Merlin <michel.merlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:

« They are not being moved »

Maybe indeed. Maybe as well they are however, since I remember having
seen the one with biggest contents and most recent dates changed once,
then another times some months later, and so on (and the location changed
in "IE > Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Internet Files > Settings >
Move Folder" without my will or action).

Do you know how do those different TIFs work, what are their purposes,
what are their differences, e. g. as to user's rights on them (replying
to "AdamT")? BTW I notice:

You list at the same time:

C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files, and
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

as well as Cookies, History...

Most of those TIFs are empty (or nearly)

C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files doesn't exist on my PC (instead I
have the one I reported,
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5)

Paris, Thu 7 Sep 2006 08:56:10 +0200

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Sent: Wed 6 Sep 2006 20:35:03 -0600 (02:35:03 GMT)
Subject: Re: Windows sometimes moves TIFs (Temporary Internet Files)

They are not being moved.

There are several TIF folders and Content.IE5 folders on XP machines.

Seven if XP Pro. I do not remember what XP Home has.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files
C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

Do an Advanced Search for Temporary Internet Files on your machine.

Or paste the above paths into Start | Run and see if the folders open.

Also...

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Cookies
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Cookies
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Cookies
%userprofile%\Cookies
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Cookies
C:\WINDOWS\Cookies

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\History
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\History
C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\History
%userprofile%\Local Settings\History
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\History

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\History\History.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History\History.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\History\History.IE5
C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5
%userprofile%\Local Settings\History\History.IE5
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########
C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########
%userprofile%\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local
Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist########

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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From: "Michel Merlin" <michel.merlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wed 6 Sep 2006 12:20:10 +0200 (10:20:10 GMT)
Subject: Windows sometimes moves TIFs (Temporary Internet Files)

This is quite mundane, not "very odd". Windows appears to sometimes move
TIFs by itself, particularly after you have moved them (using "IE > Tools

Internet Options > Temporary Internet Files > Settings > Move Folder").

But even on my current laptop, where I never moved them, I have today 2
TIFs:

1) C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5
(4 folders dated Fri 1 Sep 06 around 15:02)

2) C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
(4 folders dated Sun 23 Apr 06 10:59)

The laptop has been used by myself alone since end Feb 06. It was
installed Windows XP Pro little before by my vendor (in Germany), surely
a fresh install, I doubt he did an upgrade from W98SE (in W98SE the TIFs
were in C:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5, which is
not changed if you upgrade from W98SE to W2K e.g.) - however this, if the
case, would explain that TIFs would have been first in (2) then moved by
Windows for unknown reason on 23 Apr.

For details on moving TIF see http://www.winxptutor.com/movetif.htm

Paris, Wed 6 Sep 2006 12:20:10 +0200

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From: "AdamT" <adwulf@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Fri 25 Aug 2006 02:22:03 -0700 (09:22:03 GMT)
Subject: Location of Temporary Internet Files is moving

Dear all,

I'm getting a very odd problem on some Windows XP computers. Usually, a
user's temporary internet files would end up somewhere in their profile,
eg C:\docume~1\username\locals~1\applic~1... etc

Somehow, something is resetting this to C:\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files - which is a bit of a problem for users who aren't administrators,
as they only have read permissions to the directory.

Any pointers?

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