View/delete Kazaa's Preview Files

[DrSpud]

In case you didn't know, Kazaa will make copies of the files you preview with theater in your temporary internet files folder. Normally, they don't show up and aren't accessable with explorer, and clearing your temporary internet files folder won't delete them. And with XP, even a search won't show them (unlike other Windows versions). However, there are two ways I've found to view and delete them in Win XP.

1. Login as a different user and go to Documents & Settings\(your username)\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ and look through all the folders.

Or a quicker way:
2. When in your temporary internet files folder in explorer and logged in as you, just add '\Content.IE5' to what's in the address bar.

You can now see everything in the folder as it actually is. Doing a search from there will now show all the files. You can delete any other files that have been left behind as well as the files that Kazaa left from previewing with theater.


I cleaned out several hundred MB when I first realized this. Also keeps people from finding remains of all those bad movies you thought weren't porn, but were mislabled .

[ninjamonkey]

so, they will never get deleted unless you do this?

[chalkmongoose]

Yep. Part of the joyous KMD experience. Really no way to modify that unless shouting at Sharman counts.
Hell it got us a tabbed interface...
Oh well, if your dumb enough to use theater instead of a real media program like bsplayer, you deserve this fate.

[DrSpud]

Well, most people don't have the slightest clue how Kazaa stupidly previews files, so they naturally use theater since it's convenient, not knowing that they're wasting tons of HD space. So I guess 'ignorant' is the term you want.

[Jay]

what if you put the amount of disk space u use in the temperary internet folder to 1 MB, do u still have to worry about the files taking tons of HD space.

[Daecilius]

I didn't find anything large in the Temp Internet Files folder

[Biggest_Baddest_Wolf]

I actually found my way there using a tip I found on some website utilizing internet explorer to view the stuff on my harddisk.... it's a different way that comes down to the same thing, only I use IE instead of the normal explorer, and guess what... my brother has been visiting a crap load of porn-sites lol.....
Good tip tho, and it doesn't work for just the kazaa preview files in case someone hadn't already realized.
Like said, being the administrator on this machine, I could see my brother's temorary files too.... I didn't set a disk space limit because I don't mind a little elbow grease to clean out the stuff on my computer every now and then.
And that's what I'm going to do right now.... got 2.4 gigs of useless stuff begging to be removed.

[loz]

Windows washer will delete it for you (search net for trial version)
over 800mb recovered due to it deleting this & temp files etc.

[Evil Fish]

so, what exactly am i looking for in these folders?

[AR8]

IDK if this will work, but, can't you go into:

Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Delete Files, coz that deletes all your Temporary Internet Files too, I think it's easier, but, that may not delete your KLite Temp files... IDK