Thanks for your reply! I'm seriously showing my ignorance here - I don't know how to delete them manually. I've always done it either by Disk Cleanup or through IE. But now they're hanging and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del - End Task. You're probably right -something else *is* going wrong, but darned if I know what it could be. Thanks for helping, Connie C. > hey Connie... having clean-up or explorer hang up on you when you are > deleting files could be a sign of something else going wrong... just my > immediate thought there... > > have you tried booting into safe mode and deleting them manually? > > ~s To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/