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internet explorer 11

May 11, 2016 5:40AM PDT

took me ages to find this but my TIF files are lost if I go to tool/internet options/settings there is no allocated space for my TIF files and the capacity is locked at 0mb if I click move folder and track back the TIF folder seems to be in the right place I done an sfc scannow under command prompt and it says there are missing files and this is a large report and cant read it dont know what to do now how do I replace these missing files

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Re: TIF
May 11, 2016 6:02AM PDT

- TIF aren't files, it's a folder to store files in that IE gets from the web.
- What exactly do you mean with "if I click move folder and track back the TIF folder seems to be in the right place".
- Did you try to reset IE back to defaults? That's under "Advanced" and to be done if IE is in an unusable state. Could help.
- If anyone can read that report from sfc it's you. We surely can't. So we can't say what to do, except a reset or a refresh of Windows. But that might be an overkill.

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re TIF folder details
May 13, 2016 5:38AM PDT

give you more detail whole system gone to pot office /internet anyway found in W10 Explorer 11 tools int options settings there is no file location listed for TIF folder and the disc capacity will not move it seems the TIF files are not being saved to the folder although it looks like it is in the right place second user has no problem and my internet has gone totally now I gave up and decided to try to reinstall w10 or repair but if I try this it says I cant uninstall due to missing partitions in drive C -now i have a small ssd for drive C and totally wiping this is fine all my other stuff is on other drives but I am even struggling to do this due to running EFI MB and the partitions being GPT and i do not have a boot disc to format the drive and clean install W10

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I've been using the Microsoft Media Creation Kit
May 13, 2016 11:12AM PDT

To make W10 boot and install USB sticks. This is free and works so get that done.

As to the Temporary Information Folder or TIF I can write that as we have more RAM today not all web content is written to the HDD.

I wish I could find your goals here. maybe it's as simple as using WGET to fetch a web page's contents?