To clean these up, you can go into the Internet Explorer tools, which on my Vista computer running IE 7, is under the Tools dropdown list and select Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears.
On the default tab, the General tab, you will find an entire section on Browsing History. Here, you have a button labeled Delete, which will delete the history of the Internet Explorer. With the new versions of IE, you can control what is being deleted, such as Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, and Passwords. Obviously, we are mostly concerned about the Temporary Internet Files here. When you select the Delete Files button, you will initially be asked to confirm your selection, which upon clicking it, will delete the files in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
Using Group Policy Preferences to Delete Files: When you crack open a GPO in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1, you will find a new set of GPO settings that fall under the Preferences node. The setting that we want to focus on can be found under either the Computer Configuration node or the User Configuration node. The path to our setting is the same under each node: Preferences\Windows Settings\Folders.
When you get to this node, right-click Folders, then select the New - Folder. This will open up the New Folder Properties dialog box.
Within this policy, you will need to configure the Action of the policy, as well as the path to the folder that you want to control initially. The action mode that you want to configure is Delete, obviously. Then, you will type in the path to the Temporary Internet Files based on the operating system that you are targeting. Finally, you will need to select the check box that is labeled Delete all files in the folder(s) to ensure that you remove all of the files in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
One of the great benefits of using the Group Policy Preferences via Group Policy is that it adheres to the background refresh that Group Policy possesses. This occurs every 90 minutes (give or take 30 minutes either way) on all computers that process Group Policy. Thus, the files will be deleted from all computers that the GPO targets within a two hour period!
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