How to get ride on not visible temporary internet files?
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I use to delete the temporary internet files from time to time in order to keep HD not overloaded. What pisses me off is, I use CTRL+A to select all, I delete all and then right mouse click on the folder and it shows still a bunch of files. In my old WinXP laptop I found how to bypass it, restarting the computer on safe mode. Then I could see the folder "content ie5", deleted it and folder properties showed "0 files, 0 Bytes" In Win7-64bit I have tried the same without result. I have tried through the internet explorer and firefox to delete all temporary files... nothing, I have tried to get in safe mode... nothing. I have tried to get into Dos, getting to the directory of temporary internet files and there is a folder "{751AD-.... bunch of letters and numbers}" I have tried rmdir with result "not possible, folder not empty", I have tried to get into the folder and use delete, remove and all the commands shown in dos-help and nothing another time... :mad: For those going to think bad... yes, there is some porno inside ;P Jokes apart, the real reason is I use a SSD and have 3 different VM's on it because of job. The space is quite limited and it pisses me off when I start getting the message "there is lack of space in the HD, please delete some files". I have moved a lot of stuff to external drives, but it angers me not being able to delete those files. Any other way to get ride of it in Win7??? Any advice will be wellcome.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I use to delete the temporary internet files from time to time in order to keep HD not overloaded. What pisses me off is, I use CTRL+A to select all, I delete all and then right mouse click on the folder and it shows still a bunch of files. In my old WinXP laptop I found how to bypass it, restarting the computer on safe mode. Then I could see the folder "content ie5", deleted it and folder properties showed "0 files, 0 Bytes" In Win7-64bit I have tried the same without result. I have tried through the internet explorer and firefox to delete all temporary files... nothing, I have tried to get in safe mode... nothing. I have tried to get into Dos, getting to the directory of temporary internet files and there is a folder "{751AD-.... bunch of letters and numbers}" I have tried rmdir with result "not possible, folder not empty", I have tried to get into the folder and use delete, remove and all the commands shown in dos-help and nothing another time... :mad: For those going to think bad... yes, there is some porno inside ;P Jokes apart, the real reason is I use a SSD and have 3 different VM's on it because of job. The space is quite limited and it pisses me off when I start getting the message "there is lack of space in the HD, please delete some files". I have moved a lot of stuff to external drives, but it angers me not being able to delete those files. Any other way to get ride of it in Win7??? Any advice will be wellcome.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
What happens when you use the command inside IE to delete temp files?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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What happens when you use the command inside IE to delete temp files?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
It shows the icon of "working" and then have deleted the history, the cookies, and everything what I usually find in the temporary internet files folder, but those not visible folders and files are still there. As I said, going through DOS in safe mode, I get there through "cd"-command and do a "dir" and I can see a folder containing X subfolders and more than 12k files in total (around 800 Mb) but I am not able to delete them. Under windows the folder is empty but right click and choose "properties" it says exactly the same than under DOS
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I use to delete the temporary internet files from time to time in order to keep HD not overloaded. What pisses me off is, I use CTRL+A to select all, I delete all and then right mouse click on the folder and it shows still a bunch of files. In my old WinXP laptop I found how to bypass it, restarting the computer on safe mode. Then I could see the folder "content ie5", deleted it and folder properties showed "0 files, 0 Bytes" In Win7-64bit I have tried the same without result. I have tried through the internet explorer and firefox to delete all temporary files... nothing, I have tried to get in safe mode... nothing. I have tried to get into Dos, getting to the directory of temporary internet files and there is a folder "{751AD-.... bunch of letters and numbers}" I have tried rmdir with result "not possible, folder not empty", I have tried to get into the folder and use delete, remove and all the commands shown in dos-help and nothing another time... :mad: For those going to think bad... yes, there is some porno inside ;P Jokes apart, the real reason is I use a SSD and have 3 different VM's on it because of job. The space is quite limited and it pisses me off when I start getting the message "there is lack of space in the HD, please delete some files". I have moved a lot of stuff to external drives, but it angers me not being able to delete those files. Any other way to get ride of it in Win7??? Any advice will be wellcome.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
rmdir /sremoves a folder and all files within it. If you have a too-small SSD, you might want to use symlinks to move folders to a harddrive. This way you can install programs to the fast SSD and move them later (when you discover you don't use them much) to the hard drive without having to uninstall. For example, if you are a C# developer, you could move the huge C++ portion of Visual Studio (1.1 GB) to the HDD while keeping the all other parts of VS on the SSD:mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC" "d:\MovedFromSSD\VS10VC"
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rmdir /sremoves a folder and all files within it. If you have a too-small SSD, you might want to use symlinks to move folders to a harddrive. This way you can install programs to the fast SSD and move them later (when you discover you don't use them much) to the hard drive without having to uninstall. For example, if you are a C# developer, you could move the huge C++ portion of Visual Studio (1.1 GB) to the HDD while keeping the all other parts of VS on the SSD:mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC" "d:\MovedFromSSD\VS10VC"
Thanks a lot, I'll try it. About the Programs... most of the professional software is inside the VMs. In the main OS is just Office, Nero and 2 or 3 things more. Different customers using different versions, that's why I need the VMs
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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rmdir /sremoves a folder and all files within it. If you have a too-small SSD, you might want to use symlinks to move folders to a harddrive. This way you can install programs to the fast SSD and move them later (when you discover you don't use them much) to the hard drive without having to uninstall. For example, if you are a C# developer, you could move the huge C++ portion of Visual Studio (1.1 GB) to the HDD while keeping the all other parts of VS on the SSD:mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC" "d:\MovedFromSSD\VS10VC"
rmdir /sdid the job. Thank you.Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
