deleting System folders

From: David Jones (kk7gw_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/02/03


Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 08:57:35 -0700


Do they go away if you empty Temp Int. Files, cookies,
history from IE's Tools->Internet Options menu?

>-----Original Message-----
>".Dat" files in Temporary Internet Files,Cookies &
>History have all grown to a large size. 5 to 10 MB. In
>old Windows 95 and 98 you could go to DOS start up and
>use the command "DELTREE" to delete the 3 above
mentioned
>files. Then when you restarted Windows these files would
>regenerate and the DAT file within them was back to 32kb.
>
> How do I get rid of these large DAT files in XP??
>Trying to use DOS COMMAND may be the way, but it does
not
>recognize the tree.
>
>
>.
>



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