Content.IE5 folders kept giving me BSOD's while doing Ad-A..

External Since: Sep 24, 2004 Posts: 28

I got the new Ad-Aware SE last night. As it was scanning, my computer would go
into protracted BSOD's and I'd have to hard reboot. So, during the third try at
this, I watched closely to see what file it was crashing on. It was the
Content.IE5 folders, where some of the folders have over a thousand files in
them. The one I saw last had over 4,000 files in it. So I went to each folder,
clicked on the "Modified" button so the files would be most recent to least
recent; scrolled down to the bottom, and spared the ones that said
"desktop.ini", then highlighted all the rest of them using the shift key. I then
deleted all them files in each of the dozen or more folders (it took 90 minutes,
from a months' worth of cleaning out of that bunch of folders; they were cleaned
a month ago). I got a prompt to save "groups.com" programs (MS-DOS), so since I
don't know what that is about, I saved those when prompted during deletion.
Explorer kept crashing while doing deletions (Win 98SE), so I really had to
fight with the machine, wait patiently at times, and reboot a few times.

On the next Ad-Aware scan, the scan was completed without incident.

External Since: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 2

td_ wrote:
> Suggest you upgrade from IE5 to IE6.
> Also, delete all .TMP files , there may be a lot of them in your PC.
> Delete all Temporary Internet Files.
> Make sure you have the latest Windows updates.
> Needless to recommend to have your antivirus up to date !
> Good luck !
>

IE6 is no better, if you want a good browser without the huge spyware,
virus and hijacking problems I suggest using firefox instead. Its way
ahead of IE. I've tried most browsers and firefox is the best by far.

I also use thunderbird as my email/news reader instead of virus prone
outlook.

Upgrading both programs is painless, all your bookmarks and email
addresses are transferred to the new programs as part of the install
process.

Everyone I know that has tried firefox has deleted IE within a week of
trying firefox. To my knowledge not one has regretted the switch.