How to erase IE cookies, history and temporary files?

Hello! reenigne, It's really worth to do. Please keep going don't stop. I want to write an application to clean the system also. Can we work together? I want to provide freeware to the world also. Morever, can I have the complete coding for your cleaner, or give me the sample app so I can test it.

I actually wrote an application in C# to do this, but it doesn't really work. All of those things are cached. You can delete them at the filesystem level, but it's not ironclad... Here's some snippets: Get the registry settings for IE for cookies, history, etc. I wrote a cleaner class to do this. private static string m_iesf_key = "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders"; public cCleaner() { GotCache = GetIESetting("cache", ref m_cachepath); GotHistory = GetIESetting("history", ref m_histpath); GotCookies = GetIESetting("cookies", ref m_cookiepath); } private static bool GetIESetting(string svalue, ref string PathSetting) { bool validpath = false; Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey rk; rk = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(m_iesf_key, false); PathSetting = rk.GetValue(svalue).ToString(); rk.Close(); if (PathSetting != "") validpath = System.IO.Directory.Exists(PathSetting); return validpath; } private void ProcessDirectory(string targetDirectory) { // Process all files found in the target directory string [] fileEntries = Directory.GetFiles(targetDirectory); foreach(string fileName in fileEntries) ProcessFile(targetDirectory, fileName); // Recurse into subfolders string [] subdirectoryEntries = Directory.GetDirectories(targetDirectory); foreach(string subdirectory in subdirectoryEntries) ProcessDirectory(subdirectory); } Process file just deletes the file, or you can overwrite it for security purposes. I wanted to write an app like this as freeware just to put those #$%#$ spammers out of business, but the cache in memory is still there. Anybody think this is worth continuing with?

Thanks for your reply. Can you write the sample coding for me? Thanks!

cookies, history, and temp internet files are all just folders on your hard drive, albeit specific system folders, often changing per-user. .Net has some built in classes for retrieving special folders. You can use Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.History) to return this history folder, then you can manually delete each file in that folder.