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Name: All is Well
Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:34:58 Pacific
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Greetings,
Right click temporary internet files folder/properties/
Reveals: several folders and many files for a total of 49 mb of space
I would like to come up with a bat file that I can use periodically to empty the temporary internet files folder.
I have searched around and found a few and have not had any success.
As a sidebar, I did come up with one to empty the windows recent folder
Specifically, "deltree /y C:\WINDOWS\Recent\" in a text file and then renamed to .bat and then shortcut and then "close on exit" in properties of shortcut.
-saves a couple mouse clicks as opposed to start/settings/taskbar/start menu/clear/ok
But I digress..
In conclusion
bat file
deletion of temporary Internet Files Folder



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Response Number 1
Name: All is Well
Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:37:44 Pacific
Reply:

oops, further info:
windows 95
internet explorer 5


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Response Number 2
Name: bigboy
Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:48:04 Pacific
Reply:

GO HERE:

http://www.langa.com/clean9x.htm


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Response Number 3
Name: print123
Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:50:58 Pacific
Reply:

see these posts
shttp://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/63127.html and
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/63237.html


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Response Number 4
Name: print123
Date: March 2, 2001 at 20:58:50 Pacific
Reply:

oops should have been
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/63127.html


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Response Number 5
Name: Preston
Date: March 2, 2001 at 21:09:39 Pacific
Reply:

I use xmsdsk.exe to create a 36mb RAM disk. xmsdsk is nice because it lets you pick your drive letter, it runs from the autoexec.bat file or a DOS prompt, and works with Win9x or WinME. I have Netscape and IE5 both set to use the RAM disk as the internet file cache. That way, when my computer is turned off, all those files just disappear.

You can get xmsdsk from my Yahoo briefcase:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/prestonlewis


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Response Number 6
Name: Bryan
Date: March 3, 2001 at 05:14:45 Pacific
Reply:

Bigboy's suggestion works very good.


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Response Number 7
Name: All is Well
Date: March 3, 2001 at 10:05:52 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks to everyone, researching those made for some interesting reading.
Ok, here is what I did:
downloaded the two files bigboy pointed to,
opened the clean9x bat and looked for temp wording copied out what appeared to match my system,
pasted the following line to the bat file I already had (the one that clears the documents list)-
if exist %winbootdir%\tempor~1\*.* deltree /y %winbootdir%\tempor~1\
Worked perfectly!

I opened the bat file directly to see what it was going to say, listed several files that were being deleted, one was a bit risque in nature. I now have 47 million more bytes of space, can't beat that.

Thanks, bigboy. You hit the nail on the head, or for non Americans - your suggestion was perfectly the answer to my question.


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Response Number 8
Name: Alias X
Date: March 3, 2001 at 10:12:18 Pacific
Reply:

Oops again,
For those interested,
Opened the bat file in notepad to view the contents


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