Clearing Temp. Internet Folders

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We have users connecting to our Win2K servers running Terminal Services via
Citrix Metaframe. My questions is - How can I cleanup / deleted these Temp.
Internet Folder files for all users at the same time?
I am currently having to go into each users profile and drilling down to
that directory and manually deleting them.
 
There are several things you can do:

1. if your users have roaming profiles, you can create a policy to
exclude Temporary Internet Files to roam with the profile, combined
with a policy to delete locally cached copies of roaming profiles.
The combined effect is that they won't have any Temporary Internet
Files on your TS.
2. You can create an IE specific policy to limit the amount of disk
space that can be used to store Temporary Internet Files. Look for
the IE ZAK (Zero Administration Kit) policy templates on
http://thethin.net
3. You can add a line to your users login/logoff script to delete
their Temporary Internet Files. Something like:
del %userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*
(check the correct path in your environment).
 
I am trying to follow option 3 and not having much luck.
If I run this line at the command prompt, I get the
following message: the system cannot find the path
specified. But my internet files are in
c:\do&set\mary\local settings\temporary internet files.
The odd thing is if I do a dir on this folder via the
command prompt, it shows up empty. If I look through
windows, it's full of stuff. Any ideas? Also can you
limit the space in option 2 through group policy under
user settings, windows, internet explorer maint, corporate
by changing the space to 0 there? Will any problems
arise? Thanks!
 
Go for the GPO. Much better solution then deleteing files from the
command line, anyway.
 
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