"alexharris@aol.comNEWS" wrote in message
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> How can I automatically delete the contents of the users' temp folders
> with the login script. The server is Windows 2000 with an AD and Win
> 2000 and XP PCs.
>
> So far I have worked out
> echo y | del %systemdrive%\"Documents and Settings"\%username%\temp*.*
> but this doesn't include the switch for the local settings folder and
> if I try and add it, the command fails.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
>

A more elegeant method goes like this:

del /q "%temp%\*.tmp"

What exactly do you mean with "include the switch for the local
settings folder"? Maybe something like this?

del /q /s "%UserProfile%\*.tmp"

Or U could always try something like power tweak 2005 or windows washer.

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> How can I automatically delete the contents of the users' temp folders
> with the login script. The server is Windows 2000 with an AD and Win
> 2000 and XP PCs.
>
> So far I have worked out
> echo y | del %systemdrive%\"Documents and Settings"\%username%\temp*.*
> but this doesn't include the switch for the local settings folder and
> if I try and add it, the command fails.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
>
>

Below is the batch file I usually use for this:

@echo off
if "%temp%"=="" goto :eof
if exist %temp%\donotdelete.me goto :eof
rd/s/q %temp% 2>%temp%\delete.me
del %temp%\delete.me

Using the %temp% ensures that it gets the correct temp directory, in case
it has been set to be somewhere else - if environment variable TEMP is not
set, it quits.

The check for donotdelete.me allows you to put a file named that in there
to keep it from deleting anything in the temp directory - useful if you
install something that puts things in temp to be executed on next startup.

The rd/s/q removes everything, including subdirs, from the temp directory
(the redirection of stderr to delete.me keeps it from removing the
directory itself by creating the file delete.me which is held open - this
file is then deleted by the next line).

I usually call this in the LOGOFF script, not the LOGON one.