How to delete Temporary Internet Files?

You can delete the Temporary Internet Files if you want to reclaim some disk space on your system disk (their size can reach several gigabytes). To delete Temporary Internet Files manually, do the following things:

For Internet Explorer 8:

1. Start Internet Explorer and click the Safety button on the top right size of Internet Explorer window, then select Delete Browsing History... from the drop-down menu. This will open the Delete Browsing History window.
2. In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click to select the Temporary Internet Files check box. Also make sure to deselect the other options if you want to clean only the Temporary Internet Files and leave the other history information intact.
3. Click Delete button to delete the files. Note that if you are doing this for the first time, the deleting can take a large amount of time, so be patient.

For Internet Explorer 7:

1. Start Internet Explorer and click the Tools button on the top right size of Internet Explorer window, then select Delete Browsing History... from the drop-down menu. This will open the Delete Browsing History window.
2. In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click the button Delete Files... to delete the files. Note that if you are doing this for the first time, the deleting can take a large amount of time, so be patient.

For Internet Explorer 6:

1. Start Internet Explorer and click Tools menu, then select Internet Options... from this menu. This will open the Internet Options window.
2. Click General tab and then find in the section Temporary Internet Files the button Delete Files... and click it. A new dialog box opens.
3. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box if you want to delete all Web page content that you have made available offline.
4. Click OK to delete the files. Note that if you are doing this for the first time, the deleting can take a large amount of time, so be patient.

WARNING! This will most probably delete all visible items in the Temporary Internet Files folder (except cookies) but a number of invisible traces may remain in the index.dat files. The only way to be sure that you are getting rid of all traces for good is the usage of specialized privacy protection program like Mil Shield.

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Mil Shield is a powerful privacy protection program that was designed specifically to clean and shred the Temporary Internet Files. Additional benefit is the ability to preserve the tracks from some chosen by you sites (selective cleaning), which makes your browsing more comfortable and safe (it is rather suspicious to always have empty history, cookies and Temporary Internet Files - it is better to leave some tracks from "innocent" sites). Mil Shield also cleans all other tracks as index.dat files, cookies, history, cache, AutoComplete records, UserData records, history of recently used folders and documents and many more.

Temporary Internet Files

Where is located the Temporary Internet Files folder?