Re: Temp Internet Files
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 01/10/03
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From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@excite.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:31:46 -0500
Which OS are you talking about? Makes a big difference.
I'm not aware of one. When I managed a small network [under 50 computers]
the easiest way I found of doing this was to use a two-pane Windows Explorer
window to browse to the temporary internet explorer folders to delete the
folders one at a time, machine by machine, and having to manually delete
about 8 or so temp folders per user that logged onto that machine [e.g. 5
users x 16 folders could equal having to delete 80 folders per computer].
You can't delete the files in the right Explorer pane, because you get
redirected to your own local temp internet folder, but you can right-click
on each sub-folder under the \TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\ folder
to delete them.
You could also ask each user to empty out the temporary internet files
folder using the IE GUI, but in my experience this still leaves lots of
garbage and does not delete all files. It also probably doesn't delete the
files for users that don't log into that machine any more. I suppose you
could use a Windows macro-writing tool such as WINBATCH to automate emptying
out the temp internet file folders through Internet explorer via the login
script.
I'm sure this isn't the best way to do it, but it's the way I was doing it.
I suppose there might be a third party solution or SMS way of doing this.
You could also change the IE temp file caching settings so that it empties
out each time IE is closed / opened, though I've found this also to leave
lots of garbage.
You could write a script such as a batch file that deletes the files either
remotely based on the usernames in the \documents and settings\ folder. I
once started writing such a script, but stopped when a draft version of the
batch file couldn't locate the temp folder and started instead trying to
delete files from the root of C: Plus you never know whether a user
accidentally saved something important in one of those folders accidentally.
One problem is that these files can be located in a variety of locations:
windows 2000 and XP:
- \documents and settings\
- \windowsroot\profiles\ [if upgraded from NT]
- I've also seen internet explorer temp files going to non-standard
locations, possibly depending on how and when and what version of internet
explorer was first installed and which OS was on the machine at the time.
Windows 9x and ME goes to one or more other folders elsewhere, and you don't
get the benefit of environment variables such as TEMP or USERNAME or
USERPROFILE, so that you probably have to write different code for each OS
version.
PS you would have the same problem with the Temp files as well, now that the
temp files have [foolishly?] been moved so that each user has a separate
temp file in their profile folder. I suppose this was done for better
security, but it should probably have come with an easy way to change or
disable this in the GUI, and/or an easy way for a network administrator [or
even the user!!] to centrally clear out these folders. Time and time again,
it seems to me almost as if Microsoft never tried using their own products
in a large corporate environment but only in small workgroups where no one
was bothering to do normal system maintenance.
"MYMOBILE" <mymobile@msn.com> wrote in message
news:235e01c2b843$eb48c690$d3f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA10...
> Is there a way to "centrally delete" Temporary Internet
> Files? I got 16 users on 1 machine and all of the 16 users
> has their own temporary internet files. Are there any ways
> to delete them all at once centrally?
>
> Thanks
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