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February 28, 2001 at 03:28 AM
findrew

‘stuck’ file in temporary internet cache

by findrew . Updated 25 years, 4 months ago

Hi everyone,

I had a glitch while downloading the ‘200 Ways to revive a disc’ paper from tech republic. The glitch was my own fault (wrong version of TCP/IP installed) and I have fixed that and downloaded it successfully since then.

BUT…

Now, when I run VirusScan from DOS I get the following message:

C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\W9I3SDEJ\200ways[1].zip\200WAYS.RTF
file could not be opened.

Neither Explorer nor DOS can see the problem file. I am aware that the so-called Temporary Internet Files folder isn’t a ‘real’ folder but that’s about the limit of my knowledge in that direction.

I’m tempted to try and delete the entire folder and let Windows re-create it after a re-boot which (if it works) would be safe enough on this machine (I use Norton Ghost before anything slightly dodgy like this) but I wouldn’t like to do this on a client’s system.

Can anyone tell me how to ‘safely’ remove this annoying chunk of debris?

I’m running Windows ME on this machine.

Many thanks to all who respond.
findrew.

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