I have an Uninstaller program and when i run the windows internet cache folder cleaner, it lists (DESKTOP.INI) location:C:\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5 etc. It will not let me delete them, it tells me (cannot delete,desktop.ini because it's a standard part of windows operating system). Their pileing up in the cache folder. I've checked out whats in them and there just web files and searches, but i can't get rid of them. Any suggestions? Thanks

Don, If you're talking about the alpha/numeric folders first open IE then Tools/Internet Options and under the General tab click the Settings button and change the amount of disk space to use to 20 and click OK. This will keep the number of alpha/numeric folders to 4(The higher the disk space you use the greater the number of alpha/numeric folders you'll have). Now click the Delete Files button and when the popup window appears put a checkmark in the Delete all offline content box and click OK. This will delete the contents of the alpha/nummeric folders(except the desktop.ini file which doesn't take hardly any space). Windows will recreate those files in the alpha/numeric folders all the time but doing the above regularly will clean them out. Hope this helps. Tufenuf

Copy all between the lines and name it purge.bat. Restart in dos mode and run it. Ren Man has a more comprehensive file of this type, a search (in this forum, or ME I think, maybe 2000) should find it. It's called delindex.bat. The both accomplish what you want, and both must be run from dos. Keep in mind that any passwords you have saved on sites will have to be re-entered. Ren Man's may bypass this, not sure. ============================================= @echo off cls echo. echo. echo. echo This batch file must run from the RAW DOS COMMAND PROMPT ONLY! echo. echo NOT from a DOS WINDOW while WINDOWS IS RUNNING! echo. echo. echo It will clear unnecessary files from your Temp, History, Cookies, Recent, echo Temporary Internet Files, and Applog sub-directories. echo. echo. echo Press Ctrl+C to terminate this process. . . OR, pause :: path=%PATH%;%winbootdir%\command\ lh %winbootdir%\SMARTDRV 4096 16 >nul :: cls echo. echo. echo A Clear All Files and Directories echo B Clear Temporary Internet Files Only echo C Clear History Folder Only echo D Clear Temporary Folder Only echo E Clear Applog Folder Only choice /c:abcde Choose an Option if errorlevel 5 goto applog-only if errorlevel 4 goto temp-only if errorlevel 3 goto history-only if errorlevel 2 goto temp-internet if errorlevel 1 goto all-files :: :all-files %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\temp %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\recent %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\tempor~1 %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\locals~1\tempor~1 %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\cookies %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\history %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\applog if EXIST d:\win386.swp del d:\win386.swp if EXIST e:\win386.swp del e:\win386.swp :: if EXIST c:\perform.log del c:\perform.log if EXIST c:\*.syd del c:\*.syd if EXIST c:\*.b~k del c:\*.b~k if EXIST c:\*.--- del c:\*.--- if EXIST %winbootdir%\*.syd del %winbootdir%\*.syd if EXIST %winbootdir%\*.b~k del %winbootdir%\*.b~k if EXIST %winbootdir%\*.--- del %winbootdir%\*.--- if EXIST %winbootdir%\*.pss del %winbootdir%\*.pss goto exit :: :applog-only %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\applog goto exit :: :temp-only %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\temp goto exit :: :history-only %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\history goto exit :: :temp-internet %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\tempor~1 %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\locals~1\tempor~1 %winbootdir%\command\deltree/y %winbootdir%\cookies goto exit :: :exit echo File Deletion Is Complete exit =============================================

The primary purpose of Delindex is to delete Index.dat files which are never resized and only get bigger. They contain all your web surfing history since they were (re)created, and large index.dat files can cause performance issues with browsing. Index.dat files cannot be deleted if Explorer is running. The secondary purpose is to delete junk files for reasons of space, privacy, and performance. Click here for the Delindex 4.0 post. Click here to look at Delindex (the code and notes) now. Click here to view/download Delindex from http://burzurq.com/forum/delindex.html ===========================================

Get Spider, it will clean out the file you mention - took mine from 1.7MB to 32kb which is the minimum. www.fsm.nl/ward It's free. You may have to run it 2-3 times to get it all cleaned out. Run it each time you shut down your computer and it will keep it cleaned out, and more.

Knew you'd be along shortly Ren Man. Heh, within five minutes! ;>)

This works in IE5.5 and IE6.0. Just found out something. Without using Spider or Windows Washer you don't have to go to DOS to delete index.dat. Just go to C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5(or .IE6) and delete the Content.IE folder. It will recreate itself on the next bootup. First go to DOS and at the prompt type in the following commands: CD\WINDOWS\TEMPOR~1\CONTENT.IE5(or.IE6) EDIT /75 INDEX.DAT You will be brought to a blue screen with a bunch of binary. Press and hold the [Page Down] button until you start seeing lists of URLs. These are the sites you have visited. When your done looking go to File>Exit. If you don't have mouse support in DOS then use the [ALT] and arrow keys. Now delete the Content.IE folder and repeat the above and look. PS-To delete this out of IE6.0 you have to reboot and then you can delete it from Recycle Bin after the new Content.IE folder has been recreated.