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sam1967@hetnet.nl
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      28th Jun 2003
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:59:49 -0700, "john" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am new to this and am not sure if this is the right
>place to go. But! I was given a used pc running
>windows98. I understand that windows has secret files that
>stores everything that this pc ever did and that there are
>files on the hard drive that store this stuff also. My
>question is how do I access these files and get rid of
>them. I understand that this will free up space on the
>hard drive and possibly make it faster. Also there may be
>stuff in there that I have no desire to have on my pc.
>Because my children will using this also. Thanks for any
>help you may give.


"Temporary Internet Files" folder
history folder
favorites folder
any file called index.dat
c:\temp\*.*
c:\windows\temp\*.*

run \WINDOWS\CLEANMGR.EXE


 
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