emptying, limiting size of windows cache for all users in Wink2k Pro

[Tom]

I administrate 8 Windows 2000 Pro machines for our
academic lab. The C: drives of these computers are
becoming full of internet cache files. Logging in as
administrator, I would like to do two things:

(1) Delete the current Temporary Internet Files for all
users at once. Ideally, this would not involve me nuking
the cookies and histories. A batch file to be put in
Startup would suffice.

(2) Set the size of all users' Temporary Internet Files
folders to 25MB. I imagine that I can do this with some
registry setting, but this is surprisingly confusing.
There are places in HKLM, HKU and HKCU under
Software\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Settings\Cache
and ...\5.0\Cache. It appears to me that the values that
*really* change the size limit are in HKU, but that makes
it impossible to edit them all at once. Oddly, if you
change CacheLimit in HKCU, the Settings in IE6 reflect
the current value, but the actual size of the folder
doesn't change! (It does if you make the change through
the IE6 interface.)

Any suggestions on this? I should note that these
computers are in a workgroup, but there is no server or
domain, which I think eliminates AD policies.

Thanks!
Tom

 

[Mark V]

Tom wrote in

I administrate 8 Windows 2000 Pro machines for our
academic lab. The C: drives of these computers are
becoming full of internet cache files. Logging in as
administrator, I would like to do two things:

(1) Delete the current Temporary Internet Files for all
users at once. Ideally, this would not involve me nuking
the cookies and histories. A batch file to be put in
Startup would suffice.

(2) Set the size of all users' Temporary Internet Files
folders to 25MB. I imagine that I can do this with some
registry setting, but this is surprisingly confusing.
There are places in HKLM, HKU and HKCU under
Software\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Settings\Cache
and ...\5.0\Cache. It appears to me that the values that
*really* change the size limit are in HKU, but that makes
it impossible to edit them all at once. Oddly, if you
change CacheLimit in HKCU, the Settings in IE6 reflect
the current value, but the actual size of the folder
doesn't change! (It does if you make the change through
the IE6 interface.)

Any suggestions on this? I should note that these
computers are in a workgroup, but there is no server or
domain, which I think eliminates AD policies.

It may preclude Domain Policies, but you can still implement Local
Group Policies on each system. gpedit.msc as administrator
locally.
There are many settings for controling IE cache size and restrictions
on what the user accounts can change. You may not need to clear
caches if they are size-limited perhaps.
Local...\User...\Admin. ...\Windows...\Internet Explorer\...

 

[Mark V]

Tom wrote in

I administrate 8 Windows 2000 Pro machines for our
academic lab. The C: drives of these computers are
becoming full of internet cache files. Logging in as
administrator, I would like to do two things:

(1) Delete the current Temporary Internet Files for all
users at once. Ideally, this would not involve me nuking
the cookies and histories. A batch file to be put in
Startup would suffice.

(2) Set the size of all users' Temporary Internet Files
folders to 25MB. I imagine that I can do this with some
registry setting, but this is surprisingly confusing.
There are places in HKLM, HKU and HKCU under
Software\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Settings\Cache
and ...\5.0\Cache. It appears to me that the values that
*really* change the size limit are in HKU, but that makes
it impossible to edit them all at once. Oddly, if you
change CacheLimit in HKCU, the Settings in IE6 reflect
the current value, but the actual size of the folder
doesn't change! (It does if you make the change through
the IE6 interface.)

Any suggestions on this? I should note that these
computers are in a workgroup, but there is no server or
domain, which I think eliminates AD policies.

It may preclude Domain Policies, but you can still implement Local
Group Policies on each system. gpedit.msc as administrator
locally.
There are many settings for controling IE cache size and restrictions
on what the user accounts can change. You may not need to clear
caches if they are size-limited perhaps.
Local...\User...\Admin. ...\Windows...\Internet Explorer\...