The "curious" desktop.ini file exists so that you can customize how your folder looks. You can give it a custom icon, tooltip text, disable sharing, etc. The .ini file that lives in the Temporary Internet Files folder has a class ID that tells the OS to handle viewing, editing, etc. the contents of the folder via a namespace extension. In this case, the extension refers to the IE Browser COM object via SHDOCVW.DLL.
The simplest way that I have found to get around this problem is to edit the desktop.ini file and remove the line that contains the "UICLSID=..." bit. I then add a line that says
InfoTip=This is the IE cache folder
This makes sure that there is still a desktop.ini file, so that IE won't try to recreate it, but it also disables the handling of the folder's contents through the IE COM object and lets it behave like a normal folder. If you still want access to the "special" IE way of viewing the folder's contents, you can do it through the Options menu in IE.

Guildenstern
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In reply to (Guildenstern) Re: Uncovering hidden Internet Explorer cache by Guildenstern
in thread Uncovering hidden Internet Explorer cache by ryddler

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