Temp Internet Files

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Bill

I know this is a little OT but there is a tenuous link given that AV scans
take so long to scan the Temporary Internet files on my home W2K computer.
The PC is set-up so that all users have their own logon (five in all) thus
there are five sets in these files. Is there any way proper of deleting
them, either manually or through the system, before I do the scan?
Regards.
Bill
 
Dump the contents of the IE Temporary Internet Folder cache (TIF)

start --> settings --> control panel --> internet options --> delete files

Then, reduce the size of the TIF cache to ~10MB.

start --> settings --> control panel --> internet options --> settings

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Dave




| I know this is a little OT but there is a tenuous link given that AV scans
| take so long to scan the Temporary Internet files on my home W2K computer.
| The PC is set-up so that all users have their own logon (five in all) thus
| there are five sets in these files. Is there any way proper of deleting
| them, either manually or through the system, before I do the scan?
| Regards.
| Bill
|
|
 
You have to do that using all accounts. This is something to be done PRIOR to giving a PC
to multiple users. The idea is to fully configure an account then copy that account's
profile to the 'Default User' profile. This way new users inherit the settings in the
'Default User' profile.

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Dave




| That is ok for me but how do I do that for the other user accounts?
|
|
 
No. It would be a manual process in each account by each user.

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Dave




| Ok, but this is retrospective.
| Is there still a way?
| Thanks for the help.
| Bill.
 
Ok, but this is retrospective.
Is there still a way?
Thanks for the help.
Bill.
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You can set IE to empty the temporary internet files when the browser
closes.

In IE, click on Tools>Internet Options, then click on the Advanced tab.
Scroll down to the Security section and put a check mark next to "Empty
Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed".

Of course, you will probably need to do this setting for each account...
 
from the wonderful said:
Ok, but this is retrospective.
Is there still a way?
Thanks for the help.
Bill.
Click to expand...

Assuming you are an admin, I believe you can just blow away C:\Documents
and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ folder (or
the content.ie5 subfolder). For each user.
afaik, IE will just recreate the thing once the user logs back in (you
can't do this for the currently logged in user - for them, you have to
use IE to empty the cache 'nicely' - since it's a 'specially handled
system file' .. but only for the user logged in .. weird, or what!).

Try it .. logon as someone other than yourself (but an admin) blow you
TIF folder away (to the recycle bin, just in case), logon as you, and
ensure that you get a new one created. If that works for you (it does
for me) then proceed to blow them all away. I bet you could even write a
batch file. 8>.
 
Assuming you are an admin, I believe you can just blow away C:\Documents
and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ folder (or
the content.ie5 subfolder). For each user.
afaik, IE will just recreate the thing once the user logs back in (you
can't do this for the currently logged in user - for them, you have to
use IE to empty the cache 'nicely' - since it's a 'specially handled
system file' .. but only for the user logged in .. weird, or what!).

Try it .. logon as someone other than yourself (but an admin) blow you
TIF folder away (to the recycle bin, just in case), logon as you, and
ensure that you get a new one created. If that works for you (it does
for me) then proceed to blow them all away. I bet you could even write a
batch file. 8>.
Click to expand...


Many thanks. This is the first advice I have had that is in line with what
hoping I could do but didn't have the knowledge/confidence to just go for
it. What I will do is create a dummy "user" account and test on that.

Batch file no problem - I was around in the good(??) old days of DOS.

Thanks again.
Bill.
 
Bill said:
Many thanks. This is the first advice I have had that is in line with what
hoping I could do but didn't have the knowledge/confidence to just go for
it. What I will do is create a dummy "user" account and test on that.

Batch file no problem - I was around in the good(??) old days of DOS.

Thanks again.
Bill.
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If you are doing spring cleaning. I usually blow away the temp directories
too....
c:\windows\temp and C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temp
after closing everything of course....

Syncme
 
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Hi Bill,

I know this is a little OT but there is a tenuous link given that AV
scans take so long to scan the Temporary Internet files on my home
W2K computer.
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Here's a nice little freeware utility:

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)

http://www.ccleaner.com/

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Melissa

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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
wonderful person Syncme said:
If you are doing spring cleaning. I usually blow away the temp directories
too....
c:\windows\temp and C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temp
after closing everything of course....
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Beware of doing that though - some packages/installers seem to leave the
uninstall folder(s) under the temp directory. I've had problems where I
blew away temp, and then went to uninstall something which bitched that
it wanted something from temp that was no longer there.
 
GSV Three Minds in a Can said:
Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the


Beware of doing that though - some packages/installers seem to leave the
uninstall folder(s) under the temp directory. I've had problems where I
blew away temp, and then went to uninstall something which bitched that it
wanted something from temp that was no longer there.
Click to expand...

Good to know....
I have never come up with that problem yet...(knock on wood)
I would guess that would be really bad programming practices.
 
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