Peetie writes:

<<I had hoped to set up a .bat file that would periodically
clean most of the garbage out of this directory >>

Well, you can't use Win Explorer to manage or open the files in the IE
cache in the usual way, though limited facilities are there. As Dave says,
it's a cache rather than a normal folder structure. But you can move the
files out into another folder where they can be dealt with as normal.

I haven't tried it, but I should think you'd be able to write a batch file
to move or copy selected files from Temp Internet Files into another temp
folder and then delete them from there. Or maybe you'd need 2 batch files,
one to move, the other to delete.

Might be worth a try, though I'm not sure whether a dos batch file can
recognise the contents of the cache at all. If not, you could still
manually move the whole contents to another folder, then batch delete the
unwanted ones, then move the remainder back. A bit messy, but might serve
your purposes if all else fails.

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