How do I get the junk outta my temp. internet folder?

That sounds very stupid, doesn't it. Blah. Anyway, I can't delete the stuff in my temporary internet folder. I delete it, but it doesn't seem to delete. How can I get rid of it?

 

Right click on the IE icon, and then clear the temporary internet files.

 

Thank you Jar!

 

It doesn't always work. Sometimes crap remains and the only thing you can do about it is clear the folder manually.

 

...and that folder is in your Windows directory. ("Temporary Internet files")

 

Even using the clear internet files option it doesn't clear them all. Windows protects them. However, in the windows directory (unless you have XP) there is a program called winfile.exe. This is the old win 3.x File Manager (the old windows explorer) and it's quite handy because it ignores most of window's lockout codes and so allows you to delete protected files. You've got to be careful though or you could end up deleting something important.

If that fails then boot up in DOS mode directly from startup and delete the files manually. Don't reboot into dos mode or use the command prompt though since the windows drivers and protection codes remain resident in memory and still stop access to those files.

 

A brute force method.

Select the 'Temporary Internet Files' folder. Then select from menu Edit -> Select All. Hold down shift and press the delete key.

Reboot computer and Windose will then recreate the usual folders it has in there along with the relevant 'desktop.ini' and 'index.dat' files.

 

:-o How can you possibly spell one of the most well-known names on Earth wrong??!! It's "Windows", as in a window that ferret sleeps beside, not "Windose"! Windose? Where did you ever see it spelled like that anyway?

 

It may have been an attempt at humor. Whether it was successful I will leave for you to judge.

More commonly I see it spelt as Windoze, but many variations exist.

Or it could just be a typo. "Se" is very close on the keyboard to "ws". Yeah, that makes more sense now that I think about it.

 

Well, if you insist....

Or maybe he means Windose as in dose, like it is a boring operating system. Well, there isn't many others that can handle games near as well as Windows 98 and Windows XP!

 

You're probably thinking of "doze", as in to snooze or nap. "Dose" is a single portion of medicine.

HOW COULD YOU CONFUSE SUCH COMMON WORDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE????