I have cleared my C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files folder several times, but folder properties says that there
are two files (totaling 147,523 bytes) still there (even though I cannot see
any files when I open the folder)

Additionally there is a vertical gray bar (runs from the top of that same
folder bottom .It wasn't there last month.

I have enabled "show hidden files" in my Folder Options (Control Panel).

I am the systems administrator.

I cannot delete the C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files folder (I receive the error "cannot be deleted critical to XP
operations)
Any attempt to encrypt the folder ( and its files) fails
I tried reloading my XP, but since I added SP2 it says that my version on
the CD is to older that the version that I have installed, and cannot be
loaded.
I have four spyware and fire wall products and I sweep every night....and
still cannot find out what those files are

I have been attacked several times in the past mont, and have traced the
user to an Internet Cafe in China

Is this anything to worry about

Hi

Go to a command prompt, change to that folder and then run the following
command:

dir /a/s

delete the files from there.

You wont be able to delete that folder - for the reason the message says.

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Don" <Don@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have cleared my C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temporary
> Internet Files folder several times, but folder properties says that there
> are two files (totaling 147,523 bytes) still there (even though I cannot
> see
> any files when I open the folder)
>
> Additionally there is a vertical gray bar (runs from the top of that same
> folder bottom .It wasn't there last month.
>
> I have enabled "show hidden files" in my Folder Options (Control Panel).
>
> I am the systems administrator.
>
> I cannot delete the C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local
> Settings\Temporary
> Internet Files folder (I receive the error "cannot be deleted critical to
> XP
> operations)
> Any attempt to encrypt the folder ( and its files) fails
> I tried reloading my XP, but since I added SP2 it says that my version on
> the CD is to older that the version that I have installed, and cannot be
> loaded.
> I have four spyware and fire wall products and I sweep every night....and
> still cannot find out what those files are
>
> I have been attacked several times in the past mont, and have traced the
> user to an Internet Cafe in China
>
> Is this anything to worry about