Does Windows cache the contents of .url (Internet Shortcut) files?

Question

I\'m implementing a custom URL handler in .NET. To test this, I have created a few different .url files and put them on my Desktop. This generally works fine, b

Answer 1

I've found my desktop .url shortcut contents cached in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Caches.

There are a few (several?) files with filenames like {}..ver0x.db. Two of them had the .url files cached.

Unfortunately, I've found no information on what they are or how to refresh them. Everybody just deletes them as part of some cache clean-up operation.