Clearing out Temp Internet Files

[primal]

Is there a fast way of deleting temp internet files for IE?
Im using windows 2000 and have a few profiles on here and the cache gets pretty big after awhile.
Disk Cleanup takes to long too if your hard drive is full... stupid compression calcuating...

thanks!
primal

[Calpitor]

Originally posted by primal
Is there a fast way of deleting temp internet files for IE?

Search for *.tmp and delete all

[primal]

they arent .tmp files... they're the internet cache

[Ridgerunr]

In your browser window: Tools>internet options>general tab>delete files button under 'temporary internet files'...

[primal]

i know that, but i dont want to have to log in under everyones profile and have to do that...
is there no other way that the admin can delete the cache for all profiles?

[Ridgerunr]

Might give Toni Art's 'Easy Cleaner' a shot:
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/

Works for me,but not sure if it will clear 'all' profiles...

[DuaneB]

Close all running programs and type %temp% in the Run dialog box; from the resulting Windows Explorer window, delete everything you find. Some files are not available for deletion until you reboot.

[LotusAstra]

If you change the location of ALL your TIFs of each user profile to use one central location, i would think that just clearing them from any profile would do what you want... note that i haven't tried this, but just a thought, so hope it helps.

You can move the TIF folder location with TweakUI or by editing the registry directly.

I store my TIFs etc on a RamDisk, this would also achieve what you want (and do it automatically) whenever the PC is shutdown/rebooted, the contents of a RAMdisk is lost in that situation.

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For the Disk cleanup "compress old files" thing, you can remove this function from disk cleanup via editing the registry, then disk cleanup will run as usual, but, much quicker because it will no longer search for old files to compress.

See ---THIS THREAD--- for more info.

Regards