Delete Temporary Internet Files Privacy Window

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So here we go folks - I tried every trick in the book and it didn't work. Let's list what I have tried:

It's near the bottom-right of the 'Clear browsing data' window. Any selected Chrome temporary Internet files are now gone. Mar 15, 2017  I am using Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 Version 1511. I am not being able to delete the Temporary Internet Files and Temporary Files using the 'Disk Clean-up' utility. I have checked all the boxes in 'Disk Clean-up' but the Temporary Internet Files and Temporary Files simply do not get deleted. Nov 03, 2017  Learn how to manage and delete your browsing history in Internet Explorer. Regularly deleting your browsing history helps protect your privacy, especially if you're using a shared or public PC. Cached images temporary Internet files. Copies of pages, images, and other media content stored on your PC.

1) Internet Options -> General -> Delete Temporary Internet Files and Website Files. CHECK! didnt' work

2) go to <your user dir>AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet Files and remove the files. CHECK! didn't work

3) Right click on C: drive - Properties -> General -> Disk Cleanup -> select Temporary Internet Files from the list -> Delete. CHECK! didn't work, it even didn't show me the right folder size. I had more than 2 GB while this one showed me lousy 24MB

4) Try to right click on the folder and delete it. CHECK! it was locked by some other process, in my case the rapport software from Trusteer

5) Try to rename the folder and then delete the content. CHECK! it was locked so no that didn't work either.

6) go to <your user dir>AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5 and remove the contents of this hidden directory. CHECK! this was not the right one since there were only 400K of files there.

7) CCleaner install - didn't want to do it, I personally hate this software.

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So here what did work but requires some patience:

1) Download the LockHunter and try to kill the processes that lock the Temporary Internet Files directory

2) if step one worked go to step 3 otherwise run msconfig utility or Services and try to disable the services that the LockHunter could not kill. In my case rapport is like antivirus and it is hard to kill. I disabled it on the msconfig console from starting up.

3) go to <your user dir>AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet Files and rename it to Temporary Internet Files1

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4) You will see that magically all hidden directories are now showing up. You will see the following folders: AntiPhishing, Content.IE5, Content.MSO, Content.Word, Low, MSOfficeHelp14, Virtualized

5) check the size of each folder to identify the 'offender' with the GB size go in, select all the files inside and delete them permanently.

6) Rename the <your user dir>AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet Files1 to Temporary Internet Files. It might not let you since the system processes locked it again, so run the LockHinter again to unlock the directory. It will take you approximately 5 minutes to delete 2GB of files. So be patient.

How To Delete Temporary Internet Files

Good luck, let me know how did that go.