VERY Slow Deleting of Temp Files

[Larry R Harrison Jr]

I have Int Expl 6 as part of XP Professional. Despite having the settings
whereby only 150 meg (okay, that's still a lot I suppose) of disk space is
reserved for temporary internet files, it can take upwards of 1/2 hour to
delete them all. Half-an-hour!

It's a 500 MHz 256 Meg RAM machine--obviously not all that blazing fast, but
certainly I'd expect it to not take 1/2 hour to delete files, even 150 meg
worth.

Tips?

 

[H Leboeuf]

Faster if you use DOS.

Delete/Empty Temporary Internet Cache completely
How To: and with most operating system.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm


Description of the Internet Explorer Cache
With instructions on how to completely delete the TIF (I.E. cache) under
DOS.
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers3.htm#Cache

 

[Vocátional© & Technicál© Educátion®]

You may want to buy a total of 512K memory chips.
Reboot every day.
Run Scandisk in Safe mode until it completes.
Update Windowsupdate.
Delete all files using Windows Explorer in C:\Windows\Temp\
How much free HD is there?

Best regards, Jeff @ (e-mail address removed)

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