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I recently ran Norton Antivirus, and found that I had over
100,000 files. Being a simple user, this does not make
any sense to me ... any suggestions as to how I can find
out the number of files by directory on a disk, and then
view and delete the unneeded ones?
 
Martin said:
I recently ran Norton Antivirus, and found that I had over
100,000 files. Being a simple user, this does not make
any sense to me ... any suggestions as to how I can find
out the number of files by directory on a disk, and then
view and delete the unneeded ones?
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Clean out your Temporary Internet Files! There is a
setting in IE that lets you do it.
 
I have tried what both of you have suggested. When I add
up all of the files by using the right click option, I
come up very short of the number of files that Norton is
suggesting. I delete all my temporary files on exit
within Explorer. What is the CLSID file - it seems to
have a ton of stuff in it, but I can't seem to locate it
when I do a search on my drive?
 
There is a big difference between Explorer and Internet
Explorer. I was talking about temporary files in
Internet Explorer:
Tools / Internet Options / Temporary Internet Files /
Delete Files or Settings

If you want to find out exactly where your files are, do this:
- Start a Command Prompt
- Type this command: dir /s c:\*.* | find /i /v "/" > c:\temp\files.txt
- Type this command: notepad c:\temp\files.txt

Now you will see the whole awful truth!
 
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