Thursday 16 June 2011

How to delete Temporary files, from internet and from other applications manually?


situation

Internet browsers are keeping a lot of files as cache. As you may clear this cache for their options, doesn’t do the entire job always. Also, if the system crashed and you want to transfer your data to another disk, these files are too many and completely rubbish. Here is a way to delete these files manually.
problem

How to delete Temporary files, from internet and from other applications manually? You may delete them safely!
difficulty level

0/10 :)))
compatibility

win xp, win vista, win7
solution

In xp systems
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet files
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temp\Cookies (here are the cookies)
In Vista and win7 systems
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Temp\
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

To delete these files permanently without moving them to recycle bin and waste a lot of time, hold the shift key down during the right click and delete. By this way the system will not transfer the files to recycle bin but will notifies you also that deletion will be permanently.

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