I posted this in DOS but just got told it's illegal and big bubba is taking me to jail. Hi there I was hoping someone could help me make a simple batch file to delete internet cookies and history in Windows XP. I tried doing this @echo off rmdir \s C:\Windows\Documents and settings\Local Settings\Temporary internet files\*.* but all I got was an error message saying it couldn't find the path or file. I was thinking maybe I should truncate the long directory names to 8 characters but I don't know how to make the space in Local settings into a character and when I try doing local ~1 I get error messages. Thanks for any advice :-)

del /Q c:\docume~1\YOURUSERNAME\Cookies\*.* then it will work , it will tell u that it cant delete index.dat (thats normal) but everything else will be deleted .. u can do the same for other directory like tempor~1 hope this help u .. i dont see anything that can lead u to jail with this lol !

Hi there Snipes! Thanks very much for replying. The first line to delete the cookies works great but I don't know how to type the path to the Local Settings folder. I tried local~~1 and local ~1 but I just keep getting the error 'Cannot find the path specified' Do you know how to type that in? Thanks again for your help :-) PS I meant I was going to jail for posting it in the DOS forum hehe :-)

Goosh, locals~1 do you see a pattern emerging? first 6 charectors, anything longer will need a ~1 (is the general rule however there are exceptions) JS

JS is right remember the pattern heres what u want pal Del /Q c:\docume~1\USERNAME\Locals~1\Tempor~1\*.*

Hey guys! Thanks for the advice. I see now that I just ignore the space between local and settings. I'm still getting an error though. This is what it says: C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop>del /Q c:\docume~1\Cookies\*.* c:\docume~1\libpc2\Cookies\index.dat The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop>del /Q c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp or~1\*.* Could Not Find c:\docume~1\locals~1\tempor~1\*.* C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop>del /Q c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp \*.* C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop>del /Q c:\docume~1\libpc2\locals~1\hist ory\*.* Could Not Find c:\docume~1\locals~1\history\*.* Thanks for any more advice :-)

ok try this cd "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" del /f /s /a r h s a *.* (it works without any errors) its normal to get that error for index.dat in ur cookies as u cant delete it it is used by windows