Making a .bat file

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

I'm wondering whether someone could tell me how to make a .bat file that can be executed everytime win2k starts up and does the following:

Clear all cookies
Clear temporary internet files
Clear history
Clear any other directory I want to be cleared.

Is this possible? If so can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks.

[HAL9000]

Get Window Washer to do that.

[Floppyman]

Hi Hal,

What is that, just standard shareware of freeware I can dload? Thanks.

[Tuf]

Tweak UI will do most of it. You can write commands in Notepad and rename it .bat. Make sure you put quotes around it so it doesn't name it .bat.txt.

[dldz]

Hey Floppyman you can download a trial version of Winder Washer . I've never tried that (.bat) thing with Tweakui but it sounds pretty interesting,my boxes get alot of maintenance so I clean most that stuff manually.

[reboot]

Here's the .bat file.
Copy/paste everything in RED, and paste it into your autoexec.bat
When you save it, make sure it's saved as autoexec.bat and NOT autoexec.bat.txt
If you don't have an autoexec.bat then make it using the following.

cd\windows
smartdrv
REM if you get an error on the above line, delete it.
@echo off
cd/
ECHO now deleting cookies
cd c:\docume~1\username\cookies
del. /y
cd/
ECHO now deleting Temp
cd c:\docume~1\username\Local~1\Temp
del. /y
cd/
ECHO now deleting temp internet
cd c:\docume~1\username\Local~1\Tempor~1
del. /y
ECHO add any other pathname here

This is untested, but I think it should work.
Anyone else, jump in here if you see any errors.

[mairving]

You could also use the variable in the script for username:
cd c:\docume~1\%username%\cookies to make it work for multiple users.

[doctorgonzo]

For Windows 2K/XP, you can also use the %userprofile% variable, which basically replaces "C:\Documents and Settings\username." I just made a batch file that will create a shortcut on a person's desktop, and the %userprofile% variable is quite handy for that.

So, you could do something like this:

del "%userprofile%\cookies\*.*" /q

You have to stick the path in quotes because of the spaces, but it works nicely.

[mairving]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the userprofile variable. I just got through building a login script for my PDC. It was a pain to get it working since some computers were 98 and some were 2K/XP. With 98, I use the putinenv.exe file which would set the variables in 98. Just couldn't get any drives to map deep in 98 though.

[reboot]

Either of those options would work, but I was assuming that he only wanted to remove HIS, and not everyones stuff...
On another note, you can simply remove the folders completely, and windows will recreate them on boot up, thus:

cd\windows
smartdrv
REM if you get an error on the above line, delete it.
@echo off
deltree c:\docume~1\username\cookies /y

I think that would work as well.
Or was it: deltree |y c:\docume~1\username\cookies
I can't remember the syntax now, been awhile.

Or you could do it this way:

cd\windows
smartdrv
REM if you get an error on the above line, delete it.
@echo off
cd c:\docume~1\username\
deltree |y cookies
deltree |y Local~1\Temp
deltree |y Local~1\Tempor~1
cd\

[Floppyman]

Wow, just saw this now, thanks again guys.

[Hpro]

deltree /y c:\docume~1\username\cookies this one will work Reboot - the | will not.

You could use as well this one (modified from reboot) LFN version
Deltree /y "C:\Documents and Settings\username\cookies"
and then the same for the rest -
Hpro

[reboot]

Yeah, that's it...command, then action, then folder. I should have remembered.

[Briab Guy]

http://users3.ev1.net/~stevengould/cleanup/index.html

Is a small (280kb) program that cleans out the temp folders.