I am just trying to clean up the hard drive on my work laptop (Dell D610) It is running Win XP Pro. Firstly, when i turn the laptop on, I log onto my windows account under a specific domain but am fairly certain I have full administrator rights. when i open the START menu and go to MY COMPUTER some of the folders are faded out slightly - i can still access the folders but was just wondering why they are faded out and will I still have full admin rights when logged in through a specific domain that an IT Dept setup? Next, I notice that when I go to documents and settings for my user account through MY COMPUTER then to LOCAL SETTINGS there are folders cotaining TEMP INTERNET FILES, HISTORY, TEMP, and a faded out folder called APPLICATION DATA. the TEMP INTERNET FILES folder cotains a number of files as does the TEMP folder that look as though they are just some sort of Internet history log basically I just want to try and get rid of the crap , alot of the files are .tmp files and .dat files and different folders with funny named files Also there is a bullet.png file can I get rid of this "junk"? Any help would be greatly appreciated

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The folders appear faded, coz they are hidden folders. Unless u know about the files in that folders, do not attempt to delete them. Use CCleaner for cleaning your system of temporary files and other junk. Its the best for that. Anupam

Garmy1, amen to using CCleaner (I use it daily). Another thing you may not be aware of is a file called 'index.dat'. It's sorta a log file and records every site you visit on the web. It can grow HUGE (empty, it's 32K). It's a protected file and can't be deleted by ordinary means. CCleaner can be set to delete it (not to worry, it gets rebuilt empty on the next boot). A bloated file can result in a REALLY slow machine. Recommend you set it to deal with both. HTH. Ed in Texas.

A temp file is supposed to be just that, temporary. Delete them if you wish, if Windows or another program is using them Windows wont delete them. I delete ALL temp files using Unlocker if Windows wont allow deletion. I have not yet had any problems doing so. Just for information, I recently had a computer to repair. It had 80gig HDD with 40kbs free space. It wouldn't do anything. The installed programs took no more than 15 or so gigs. Looking in the temp files shocked me, 60gigs of them, mostly IE temp files. Deleting every temp file I could find restored approx 60gigs of free space! Three defrags later and the loss of these 'temp' files restored normal operation!! GET RID OF THEM! Computers... designed to entertain,help with work but most of all to frustrate you!

Cheers guys downloaded ccleaner and removed a shed load of junk GREAT!!!