[pchelpers] Re: user accounts and malware removal

Ooops forgot to ask, can you do this IN WINDOWS or from a "C" prompt or 
from the "A" drive off a floppy on a startup disk?

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi DonBieber,
>
>Monday, August 29, 2005, 1:36:32 PM, you wrote:
>
>DSn> What exactly would I do with what you included below? Would I copy and
>DSn> paste it in a Notepad file and name it ending in .bat and then double
>DSn> click it to do it's thing?
>
>Yes.
>
>DSn> Or would I copy and paste it into the Autoexec.bat file so it does it's
>DSn> thing every time the computer starts?
>
>NO. First, AUTOEXEC.BAT does not run in Windows XP anyway, without
>some help. Second, you don't want to delete temp files at every
>startup or logon, because some programs require the computer to be
>restarted before they can finish installing, and this would cause
>problems for them.
>
>
>
>DSn> Scott McNay wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>The following will delete all files in temp folders, in WinXP:
>>>      
>>>
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>>>for /F "tokens=*" %a in ('DIR /A /B "%USERPROFILE%\.."') do @del
>>>/Q /S /F "%USERPROFILE%\..\%~a\Local Settings\Temp"
>>>      
>>>
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>  
>
>>>for /F "tokens=*" %a in ('DIR /A /B "%USERPROFILE%\.."') do @del
>>>/Q /S /F "%USERPROFILE%\..\%~a\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
>>>Files"
>>>      
>>>
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>  
>
>>>del /Q /S /F "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp"
>>>      
>>>
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>>>del /Q /S /F "%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Temp"
>>>      
>>>
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>>>del /Q /S /F "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Setting\Temp"
>>>      
>>>
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>>>del /Q /S /F "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\systemprofile\Local
>>>Setting\Temporary Internet Files"
>>>      
>>>
>
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