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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132442)	5/10/2004 8:12:26 PM
From: John Soileau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hawk, If you look in c:\windows\temporary internet files\content.IE5\you will see some gibberish-named directories. In these, much of your browsing content is stored, providing a record of places you've been and things you've seen. you may indeed have more than you think on your computer. You can click (in your browser menu) on Tools...Internet Options...Delete Files...delete all offline content...OK, and Windows will "delete" that stuff. However, the crappy Windows "deletion" just unnames each file, but the data itself stays there on your hard drive, and can pretty easily be restored. The stored data only goes away permanently once its eventually overwritten by new data on your hard drive, or when you reformat your drive, although the military doesn't consider either of these methods reliable enough to REALLY get rid of it. I believe they specify multiple overwrites (like X5) of the data before it's considered gone. There are pay and shareware programs that you can download (try www.download.com) that can do a military spec cleanup of your hard drive. John