My computer always gives "not responding" when try to delete temporary internet files. If I choose start-allprograms-accessories-systemtools-cleanup, the little popup that shows the green horizontal bar shows just a little bit, maybe 10%, then never goes further and if I click ctl-alt-delete for the taskmanager, it says cleanmgr is not responding. If I try to delete any temporary internet files I have tried two methods. The first is tools-internetoptions-tempinternetfiles-delete - and nothing happens and eventually if I look in taskmanager it says not responding. If I go to documentsandsettings-me-localsettings-temporaryinternetfiles, it takes forever for the folder contents to display (so long that even if the contents finally displays, I think that something is wrong). This time it says there are 32,000 objects. A previous time I was trying to delete these files (because a message on this site indicated that could be causing various problems from too many temp internet files, which turned out to be true), there were about 50,000 files. If I click ctl-a to highlight all the files and press delete, eventually taskmanager will say it is not responding. If I highlight only, say, several screenfuls of files and press delete, it has sometimes deleted them, but today it is also freezing then. If someone knows what could be the problem please help.

I tried again and was able to manually delete the temporary internet files in Docs&Settings-me-etc. first. I think the problem began when the default storage space for temporary files was set at over 1 gigabyte. I reduced that to 100 MB a few days ago, but the "delete files" still caused a "not responding" just a few minutes ago. But when I just now surfed to the folder myself, there weren't very many files in it, so when I highlighted them and clicked delete it worked this time and deleted them (instead of not responding). Then I went to Internet Options and tried clicking on delete files to see if it would freeze, and it didn't, although it acted like it was on the verge of freezing! I never set the default space to 1 gigabytes myself, I don't know how that happened. If I hadn't known how to find where the temporary files are, I would never have been able to get this far. I made a shortcut to get to the local settings folder.

Try decreasing the amount of space you allocated for the cache (temp. files)...it might delete anything excess of that. It's hard to believe you have that many files, unless you gave it unlimited access to your hard drive (ie: big cache size). Maybe try deleting the whole directory without going into it? I haven't heard about any problems with temp internet files...except when the index that keeps track of all the files gets corrupted. Also maybe try scandisk or chkdsk...maybe you have an error on that part of the hard drive...

Try decreasing the amount of space you allocated for the cache (temp. files)...it might delete anything excess of that. It's hard to believe you have that many files, unless you gave it unlimited access to your hard drive (ie: big cache size). Maybe try deleting the whole directory without going into it? I haven't heard about any problems with temp internet files...except when the index that keeps track of all the files gets corrupted. Also maybe try scandisk or chkdsk...maybe you have an error on that part of the hard drive...

Go to Search and click on all files and folders and type in temporary internet and then click on search it should pull up 8 folders open them up 1 at a time and you can delete them to the recycle bin.Then go to IE properties and set amount to 1mb and then go to advanced and check clear temperary internet files on log off. They will still stay at times and any of the 8 folders you delete will come back only empty.Thats why I say open and look and then decide what to delete from there Ron