why does IE5 place sooo MANY directories on hard-drive

[whutsupdoc]

Does anyone know why IE5 places so many damm directories .... of what seems to be the same cache files... in multiple subdirectories on my computer (Windows-Temp. Internet Files directory???) Each of these multiple subdirectories has the same crap in it...what up???

[VanDamage]

Well thats one of the reasons to get mad at Microsoft, they always make things complicated, but GOOD.
But I sometimes hate Internet Explorer since it crashes like every 25 mins or so.

[Mephisto]

Each "directory" is for one day of the "Verlauf" (in German), the history. I'm not sure if they actually contain multiple copies of files. I think they are ActiveX classes, and speed up surfing a lot when you come back to sites where you've been shortly before. I don't know exactly how it works, though.

------------------
Well now, who are you then?
Part of that Power which would
The Evil ever do, and ever does the Good.