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09-03-2002, 11:04 PM
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Temporary Internet Files
Appreciate some assistance.
In IE 6.0 Tools>Internet Options>General tab, deleted Temporary Internet Files. Did this while off-line. Right clicked Start, chose Explore, and went to Temporary Internet Files under C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files. Still, all sorts of files there!! Your thoughts...where did I go astray? |
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09-03-2002, 11:41 PM
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I'm not sure if it deletes the files in that directory or just the ones in the subdirectories. If you use the little "+" thing to expand the Temporary Internet Files out, there should be another directory called Content.IE5 or something close anyway. Then if you expand that one out there are a bunch of directories under it with just gibberish names. See if you still have those or if they are deleted. Maybe someone else will know whether it's supposed to delete the files out of the main directory or not.
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09-04-2002, 03:22 AM
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in windows 98/me it won't get rid of the cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder. You must also do "Delete Cookies". There is a copy of your cookies in Temp. Int. Files and also in Cookies folder. When you "delete cookies" it gets rid of both. Do the files that are left have icons that look like peices of paper? Do they contain internet addresses? Those are cookies.
There is also one file that cannot be deleted in your cookies folder, it is called "index.dat". Dont worry about that. Last edited by DilLy; 09-04-2002 at 03:26 AM. |
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09-04-2002, 05:55 AM
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If you want to get rid of everything, check out a neat little program called Spider.It works great!
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09-04-2002, 08:26 AM
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You CAN delete the index.dat file by using this dos command.
Reboot into DOS Type: c:\windows\smartdrv cd\windows deltree/y tempor~1 deltree/y history Your index.dat file can get big after awhile. I clean mine every month or so. |
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09-04-2002, 01:46 PM
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thanks AzCoastie.
And thanks for the tip Beachian, I wasn't aware of that one.   Is there a way to do that in XP Home?? |
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09-05-2002, 07:33 PM
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Thank you for the replies.
Ended up deleting the TIFs in MS-DOS. DOS does not seem to interfere or conflict with programs like Windows does. Doing surgery to Windows from DOS seems logical. Doing surgery to Windows from Windows....hmmmmm Will check out Spider. |
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09-06-2002, 06:13 AM
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I don't have dos
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09-06-2002, 10:10 AM
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With 2K/XP I suppose you could try using a command prompt in safe mode - that's about the closest you can get to Dos except for the recovery console - and what you can do there is quite limited. You can also buy NTFS4Dos and access things that way off a bootdisk.
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09-06-2002, 07:02 PM
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good idea, on the bootdisk thingy I mean.
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09-10-2002, 02:04 AM
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I've found I can delete most un-deletable files in XP by using the command prompt. Just open a command prompt window and from the task manger end explorer.exe. Delete your file then switch back to the task manager and click on new process. Enter explorer.exe. The file will be gone. Has worked for me so far.
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09-10-2002, 02:28 PM
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After years of using 98 and ME, I think it is amazing that explorer.exe can be ended without completely crashing windowsXP.
This must be NTFS at work. Oh yeah, thanks Tuf I will try that.
Last edited by DilLy; 09-10-2002 at 02:33 PM. |
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09-11-2002, 06:53 AM
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Dilly: Not NTFS - its the true 32 bit protected OS.
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09-11-2002, 10:49 AM
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Interesting. (i just realised that XP is about as stable in Fat32, so it couldn't just be NTFS)
Where can I learn/read more about how 32-bit OS's work, glc?? |
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09-13-2002, 10:13 AM
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I am far from being an expert on this kind of tech matters, but as I understand it, a true 32 bit OS runs all programs in their own dedicated memory space, so if something crashes it doesn't bring the whole OS down with it.
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