How to delete temporary internet files in terminal server

Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Group Policy. Sign in to vote. I have a terminal server in the domain and would like to create a gpo that will delete the users temp internet files upon client logoff, or upon closing the browser, which would happen at logoff anyway I'm thinking to move the terminal server out of the "server OU", create a new OU and move the terminal server in there and simply create the gpo and link it there.

Would I need to enable a loopback policy, if so why? The "server OU" does have some policies linked to it that still may need to apply to the terminal server, so I'm not sure exactly how to approach this. Obviously I could change the location of this within the registry via a script or gpo but I'm not sure if this will fix the issue or not?

Check the temp environment variable. Specifically, the temporary internet files location for IE is set to be a location in which the user does not have permissions to create new temporary files obviously, from the "access denied" msg you see.

This has worked for me. It will then prompt you with a warning to permanently delete these files. Click yes to confirm this. One thing you can try as well is removing the user profiles created on the server. There's two steps. Removing the users from these two locations will make the server think they are logging in again for the first time and rebuild their profiles. Works in our district when we encounter corrupt profiles. This error may be caused by the Temporary Internet Files folder for Windows Internet Explorer is set to be in a location where you do not have permission to create new temporary files.

RyReb: Not quite so easy on a Terminal server with many users and them using it all the time, however I had already tried this with a couple of users and still get the issues.

I then thought it was a plug in within Word causing this but it wasn't. Also, did you perform the methods on both versions of IE 32 and 64? To assess how much space is being used by these files simply run:. You are commenting using your WordPress.

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Enable the check box for "Temporary Internet Files and website files", and click Delete. Was this reply helpful?

Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. So here we go folks - I tried every trick in the book and it didn't work. Let's list what I have tried:. I had more than 2 GB while this one showed me lousy 24MB. IE5 and remove the contents of this hidden directory.