Cleanup problem

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Originally posted by Jessica11
it left a yellow folder in it called IE content5..and I use IE6. Why did it leave that there? And should it be deleted?

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The reason it got left behind is because your .bat file is using the deltree command in conjunction with the file wildcard *.*, so it only deletes files in that directory, not sub folders.

Code:

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deltree /y c:\windows\temp\*.*
deltree /y c:\windows\tempor~1\*.*
deltree /y c:\windows\cookies\*.*
deltree /y c:\windows\history\*.*

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A solution to delete the directory as well as sub directories is:

Code:

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deltree /y c:\windows\temp\*.*
deltree /y c:\windows\tempor~1
deltree /y c:\windows\cookies
deltree /y c:\windows\history

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Which will completely delete cookies, history and tif folders. They will get rebuilt by windows upon booting.

Don't do the same for temp as it doesn't get rebuilt.

Also if you want to clean out recent files, use

Code:

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deltree /y c:\windows\temp\*.*
deltree /y c:\windows\tempor~1
deltree /y c:\windows\cookies
deltree /y c:\windows\history
deltree /y c:\windows\recent

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just for conversation sake, my 2 bits...
I regularly do this from dos:

c:\windows
deltree applic~1\micros~1\office\recent
deltree cookies
deltree recent
deltree history
deltree tempor~1-s-h
deltree temp

I use these entries in the same simple gone.bat format DVOM spoke of earlier - works great.
a couple of notes - I was thinking system and/or hidden attributes for directories would prevent them from properly being "deltreed" as it were...
for that reason, I find adding the "-s-h" to the tempor~1 entry and find it works well. Also,
I do deltree c:\windows\temp and find it does rebuild, although c:\temp will not (found that out by accident).
cheers

^dAvEy^

deltree deletes system & hidden files anyway - del doesn't.

it's all coming together now!
thanks deltarho
:D