Hi all,

Does anyone have a copy of Fred Langa's CleanXP Template that they would be willing to email to me?

I've searched the Internet 4-5 times, using different terms for the search. The only link to a download I found was at Windows Secrets where Langa's old newsletters are still available. Unfortunately, the link (to freetune.com) no longer works.

So, if someone has a copy they would email to me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks much.

Jema

The command strings read:

• cd C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
• del /q /f /s *.*

Open Notepad, enter the text and save it as CleanXP.BAT - replace My Name with your login ID.


CCleaner is probaqbly a better approach though.

Edit -

I've found other snippets of the batch file - apparently it does a bit more than just clear the Temp Internet files. Unfortunately, I can't locate a complete set of code.

Hi InlandAZ,

Thanks for the reply.

What I mainly want is to clean out or delete the index.dat files in the Cookies, History, and Temporary Internet Files folders - not the other files in those folders. I clean out History and TIF when I exit IE and I manually delete cookies I don't want from the Cookies folder and the part of those cookies Windows stores in TIF.

It's my understanding the index.dat files cannot be purged or deleted from within Windows. (98SE with DOS was so much easier to deal with.)

I've tried CCleaner several times. Under Windows, when I uncheck everything except Index.dat files and click on Analyze, it returns "0 bytes to be removed." After reboot, the size of those folders have not changed, so apparently it's not purging the index.dat files. At the moment TIF is about 9-10MB, whereas, if its index.dat files were purged, it would probably begin fresh with about 32-40kb.

That's why I'm looking for a copy of Langa's CleanXP Template so I can modify it for my particular system and needs and also find out how to access it outside of Windows XP.

Jema

Edit

While I was typing, you edited your reply. Like you, I found snippets of the batch file, but nowhere did I find the beginning and ending commands.

Looks like someone posted the content at the MSFN Forums -

Point your browser to the URL below and scroll down the page (all the way to the bottom).

MSFN Forums

I was able to download it from the web archive ***here***.
If you're not able to download it from that link, I can upload it to sendspace.

The cleanxp.zip file extracts to a folder with a readme, cleanset.bat, and cleanxp.bat

Nice find -

InlandAZ and Jenny100, thank you both so very much for the time and effort you put into this.

Jenny, I was able to download the file from the web archive and extract the 3 files.

Thank goodness Langa's newsletters are still available at Windows Secrets. Hopefully, with the information in the one mentioned at the top of cleanxp.bat I will be able to create a batch file to do only what I want.

Jema

Hi Jenny100 and InlandAZ,

Something I read in that Langa newsletter made me wonder if I was using CCleaner incorrectly to accomplish what I wanted, so I tried it again.

After excluding the 3 cookies I wanted to keep, I opened the Cleaner section. This time, instead of just selecting Index.dat files, I also selected Cookies, History, and Temporary Internet Files. Clicked on Analyze and then on Run Cleaner. When it finished, I exited the program and rebooted.

It worked!!! I still had my 3 cookies in the Cookies folder, as were their corresponding files in TIF, and the 3 folders were back to their fresh-start sizes.

Again, thank both of you for all your help.

Jema

Glad you it it worked out -