In short, Microsoft codes in a SLOPPY way and litters the drive with obsolete files, directories and more. But you are asking "WHY?" which can never answered unless we were some fly on the wall at Microsoft.
I've deleted it before. It gets recreated if some software wanted it.
Best of luck,
Bob
Can anyone explain to me what is this folder used for?
I recently ran disk cleanup on my machine due to the lack of hard drive space and came across this folder under Temporary Internet Files. After running my cleaning programs I noticed that only the contents of Temporary Internet Files folder were cleaned while the Content.IE5 folder still had temporary files in it. I even found two important documents that I was working on in this folder!!
Can anyone tell me why this folder is here? Can I get rid of it?
Thanks.

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