getting rid of favicons

[jstnomega]

@C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DelTree /Y C:\WINDOWS\Temp
@MD C:\WINDOWS\Temp
if exist c:\windows\cookies\*.* deltree /y c:\windows\cookies\*.*
deltree /y Tempor~1\*.*

SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

ECHO Clearing TEMP directory : %TEMP%
DELTREE /Y %TEMP% >NUL
MD %TEMP%

A fan of neither cookies nor favicons, I've been running the above batch file on startup since, like, forever, so in W's 98SE w/IE6, I don't have those unwanted 'guests'.

(Yeah. It's a c&p mess - BUT IT WORKS! & looks don't count.)


What's the 'trick' to preventing favicons in XP Pro, also using IE6?

TIA.

[Welshjim]

jstnomega--

What's the 'trick' to preventing favicons in XP Pro, also using IE6?

This does not answer your question, but you will lose whatever Favicons you have whenever you clean out your cache (TIF), as you have learned, so you won't have to put up with them for long.
But there really is no need to worry about Favicons. They do not "call home" or otherwise spy on you. Their only functions are decorative and to help you find a particular Favorite a little faster.

[jstnomega]

Originally posted by Welshjim

jstnomega--
This does not answer your question, but you will lose whatever Favicons you have whenever you clean out your cache (TIF), as you have learned, so you won't have to put up with them for long.
But there really is no need to worry about Favicons. They do not "call home" or otherwise spy on you. Their only functions are decorative and to help you find a particular Favorite a little faster.

Agreed. Just that W's 9.x rides on DOS & the autoexec.bat is not to be found in XP, so I'm wondering how one would run such a purgative in XP - something about creating a script, which I don't know what that means.

(hugs his 9.x & 'Sysedit' function)

[Welshjim]

jstnomega--Maybe now I understand your question better. Are you saying .bat files do not run in WinXP? I would not know since I run Win98. I thought WinXP retained some DOS capability.
Or maybe the batch file in your first post could be amended to accomodate WinXP?
Maybe Vernon Frazee will see this thread and offer help. He is a DOS expert.

[jstnomega]

Welshjim, Yes, that's it. I am also still running 98SE. IE is soooooo tangled-up/tightly-bound w/whatever ver of the W's OS one chooses to run! At least in 9.x ver's, IE caching & temp file behavior can be tamed/limited via such heavy-handed methods as the above bat file I run. Maybe not pretty, & it does lengthen boot time, tho not by much, but it does work - no cookies, no favicons, no temp file kludge. If I were to switch to XP, I wouldn't know how to go about avoiding all of that IE dross.

[Vernon Frazee]

Fred Langa's site has some excellent, fully documented 'cleanup' BATch file solutions for various versions of Windows:

http://www.langa.com/cleanup_bat.htm

[Steve R Jones]

The files are in different folders in XP.

C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Jones\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Jones\Cookies

[jstnomega]

VF & SJ, Thx for the linkage & the info. Stopped subscribing to the Langa Newsletter some time ago, so wasn't up to date on the XP fix. At least now I know where to find these things when I, eventually, do make the move to XP.