On 11 Jul 2005 17:49:32 GMT, "Jim Seavey"
<jwseavey.spam@norseaodyssey.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I don't know if this is appropriate for this list or not.
>
>How can I remove ALL of the temp files that IE creates? I have tried to
>do so in safe mode and I am denied - I get a message telling me that
>the files are in use.
>
>What to do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim
I find that Process Explorer www.sysinternals.com gives me the
capacity to see what processes are keeping files open. You can kill
many of these processes freeing up the files for deletion. Generally,
temp files used by ie are also used by explorer which is your desktop.

Steps
Open a DOS prompt (you can't delete some of these files from Windows)
Kill the relevent processes in Process Explorer
Delete the files in the DOS Window [I have a bat file which deletes
*.dat & *.txt in all the Temp directories]
Use Process Explorer to restart things like explorer.exe.
(Defrag the disk.)