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Deleting Temporay Files

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by rosierain

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Ive asked alot and read alot on temp files and Iam always told that if its in the temp, temp internet and cookies are all safe to delete. Not so my friend , at laeast in my case ! I went ahead and deleted the files from my Temporary Internet Follder. When I went to log on to my ISP it would not let me log on ? I went threw all of my internet settings in the control panel and everything appeared to be OK ! What appeared to be lost was my user profile, and password. Thank goodness I have NortonUtilities and I was able to recover the deleted Temps. I also learned an important lesson. Never empty the recycle bin B/4 you are sure you dont need the files ! So whats the story with Temps. How do you know whats safe to delete ? Thanks Nick

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by thegodfather

It sounds to me that you emptied this folder via Windows Explorer? If you delete the Temperary Internet files from your Internet Explorer browser TOOLS,INTERNET OPTIONS,GENERAL. Then you can delete them from there, but it keeps the stored essentialCookies, and these are what is keeping you User Profile. You could keep a million Cookies and never loose any hard drive space, so use I.E. and you will be fine. You can empty the entire Temp folder through Windows Explorer, it won't affect your machine.. Good Luck..

by Member 26407291

howdy rosierain,

look at this ...
http://www.langa.com/cleanup_bat.htm

it's a set of files that can automate the cleanup of safe-to-kill files.

your prob was killing a cookie that you ought not to have disposed of. just "don't DO that" any more. use the tools/internet-options/general/temporary-internet-files/delete button and tell it NOT to clobber your cookie files.

hope that helps,
lee

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