How to erase IE cookies history and temporary files?

Question

Hello! I would like to write an application that can do System Erase such as IE cookies history and windows temporary files etc. Anyone got the sample coding for C#? Please give me reply asap. Thanks!

softairhk · Answer

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.

sgreenst · Answer

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?

softairhk · Answer

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

ssswamii · Answer

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.

How to erase IE cookies, history and temporary files?