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I have a problem at the moment where the content.ie5 directory in the Temporary Internet Files folder in \Windows\syswow64 is just growing by many GB per day (9GB overnight) I am able to manually delete the contents with powershell in administrator mode, but it just grows back straight away.

I have set the internet settings to only allow 8mb of diskspace and I have changed the location of Temporary Internet Files to my E:\ drive. Windows has created the hiddent temp folder but the size is ignored and there is another hidden folder in SysWOW64

I have run a antivirus scan (with MS Security Essentials) and a rootkit scan and nada.

What the hell is doing this ?

(I am on Windows 7 with IE11, IE11 is virtually never used, I use Chrome for browsing)

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  • Do you get the same issue if you start Windows in Safe Mode or if you perform a clean boot? Did you try using Process Explorer to track down what's creating the temporary files in first place?
    – and31415
    May 6, 2014 at 15:16
  • Booted several times...didn't try safe mode as obviously that wont download to the dir with no network connection. Not sure if its just that I don't know how to use PE properly, but I couldn't see what process was writing to that dir....I couldn't see the handle to the directory at all...maybe because its super hidden ?
    – Tim Jarvis
    May 6, 2014 at 22:32
  • Sorry, I meant safe mode with networking. Also, while Process Explorer might help, Process Monitor is actually better suited for the job - provided you use the right filters.
    – and31415
    May 7, 2014 at 8:29
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    I'm also seeing this, however it looks like the files have nothing to do with Internet Explorer, or the Internet. It's all logs for the .Net Assembly Binder.
    – ppittle
    Aug 26, 2014 at 11:45
  • @ppittle yep, that's what it turned out to be.
    – Tim Jarvis
    Aug 27, 2014 at 1:49

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