Hi Hari, The fact that it appears at all, then disappears is perplexing. Have you tried any of the following? Cleared out saved Cookies and Temporory Internet Files in IE? Checked for corrupted plugins by going to Tools/Internet Options/General Tab/Settings/View Objects and delete any plugin with a status other than 'installed'? Change screen resolution to a higher/lower setting?

This time, after starting again in Safe Mode, through Windows Explorer with "view hidden and system files", I tried deleting the Temporary Internet Files folder and it was successful for the administrator user! However, after restarting and looking through Windows Explorer at this user (myself), there is no Temporary Internet Files folder displayed for hidden or system files. I thought

I looked at the error report following another attempt to delete TIFs via IE. The error report displays: AppName=explore.exe, ModVer=6.02900.3020, AppVer=6.02900.2180, ModName=wininet.dll On the next screen "technical information" about the error report includes the following files to be included with the report: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\1b0b_appcompat.txt "Don Varnau" wrote

I successfully deleted Content.IE5 from Administrator in Safe Mode! Now, what do you suggest for the next step? At least TIF files from within the Temporary Internet Files folder are deleted as well as Content.IE5. "Don Varnau" wrote: Hi, Go one level deeper and see if you can delete Content.IE5 from Administrator / Safe Mode. Don [MS MVP- IE] "Robert S"

So far, I have tried System Restore as far back as I could go (10/31/06) and could not delete TIF files due to the same Error message. While in Safe Mode, I also verified other programs running via task manager and only found "IE" and "HP Agent" running so I closed them and tried again to delete TIF files without success due to the same error message. I also tried deleting the Temporary