Delete temporary internet files windows 98

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Ramesh Srinivasan. In reply to NShafkat's post on June 3, Can you post a screenshot? How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I had more than 2 GB while this one showed me lousy 24MB 4 Try to right click on the folder and delete it. So here what did work but requires some patience: 1 Download the LockHunter and try to kill the processes that lock the Temporary Internet Files directory 2 if step one worked go to step 3 otherwise run msconfig utility or Services and try to disable the services that the LockHunter could not kill.

Word, Low, MSOfficeHelp14, Virtualized 5 check the size of each folder to identify the "offender" with the GB size go in, select all the files inside and delete them permanently. Good luck, let me know how did that go. This site in other languages x. In the dialogue box I type jpg. This lists al pile of files; some are program files, system files which need to be there.

However, there are a lot of files which are temporary internet files which are web sites which have been visited i. Next I cleared my TIFs as described above and did a new search. I know I am probably driving you crazy with this thing and will not belabour it beyond this message. I run into this once in a while. For some reason they don't always seem to all get deleted. I just delete them from dos. I'm of the opinion it's better to use dos anyway as it also deletes the index. Give it a try.

It might even straighten out your problem of not being able to delete them in windows no guarantees. Boot to a dos prompt and type the following line followed by the enter key. It needs to be there. This will delete the folder and all. When you restart, windows will make a new one. Zander ,. To do a good cleanup in dos, copy and paste the following lines into Notepad and Save As the name "Clean. Bat ", into the Windows folder. Be sure it doesn't have the txt extension when done, or it will not work.

To use, just Restart in Dos Mode, type in clean and hit enter, then reboot. You can delete all files found in this folder, and if any files are in use, they can be skipped. After restarting the computer, some improvement in the performance of the computer should be noticed. Once the steps above are completed, we also recommend you ensure the temporary folder on the hard drive is empty by following the steps below.

Because all temporary files are only a location to hold information temporarily, all temporary files are safe to delete. However, keep in mind that if a file or program is using that file, you may not be able to delete the file.