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About temporary files - get rid of them (II)

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Here is another tip to cleaning up Windows' temporary files. Thank you to Mr. Frank Fallon of Australia, who has a site with similar Windows tips. This works with Windows 98 and Me:

To clean up temporary files, you use these command lines:

DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\FF*.TMP > NUL
DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\COOKIE*. > NUL
DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\"Temporary Internet Files"\*.*
MD C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

I prefer to place them in a batch file. I have the file clean.bat placed on my desktop on my Windows 98-based PC. It holds the mentioned lines, and is easy to execute, being placed at the desktop:

When I run the batchfile, the commands are executed one by by one:

It really cleans up - very fast and very efficiently.

Mr. Fallon also recommended a handy temp cleaner. It is a little program which may take care of these problems. Download it here, if you want to test it.