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Cesar Silva
Cesar Silva

Reputation: 9

Powershell not able to clear IE Browsing Cookies, Caches, etc

I am trying to clear browser data from default location C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache. I am trying to clear Cookies, Cache or any type files located in that path but I am not sure what am I missing here

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Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Powershell commands to delete cache & cookies in Firefox, Chrome & IE browsers"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "By Cesar Silva"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "VERSION: 3"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "CHANGE_LOG:
v2.4: - Resolved *.default issue, issue was with the file path name not with *.default, but issue resolved
v2.3: - Added Cache2 to Mozilla directories but found that *.default is not working
v2.2: - Added Cyan colour to verbose output
v2.1: - Added the location 'C:\Windows\Temp\*' and 'C:\`$recycle.bin\'
v2:   - Changed the retrieval of user list to dir the c:\users folder and export to csv
v1:   - Compiled script"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "#######################################################"
""
#########################
"-------------------"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 1: Getting the list of users"
"-------------------"
# Write Information to the screen
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Exporting the list of users to c:\users\%username%\users.csv"
# List the users in c:\users and export to the local profile for calling later
dir C:\Users | select Name | Export-Csv -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv -NoTypeInformation
$list=Test-Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv
""
#########################
"-------------------"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 2: Beginning Script..."
"-------------------"
if ($list) {
    "-------------------"
    # Clear Internet Explorer
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "SECTION 5: Clearing Internet Explorer Caches"
     "-------------------"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Clearing Google caches"
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan
    Import-CSV -Path C:\users\$env:USERNAME\users.csv | foreach {
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\*.*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Temp\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\Windows\Temp\*" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
        Remove-Item -path "C:\`$recycle.bin\" -Recurse -Force -EA SilentlyContinue -Verbose
            }

    Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "Done..."
    ""
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "All Tasks Done!"
    } else {
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Session Cancelled"  
    Exit
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3233

Answers (1)

codewario
codewario

Reputation: 21418

Well if any errors are occurring, you are suppressing them with the -EA SilentlyContinue flag. I would remove that from your Remove-Item calls and see if any sneaky errors are hiding there.

I'm not sure if you intended this, but in your first Remove-Item call under INetCache:

Remove-Item -path "C:\Users\$($_.Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\*.*"

You are removing only files with a . in the filename, basically only files with extensions. If you want to remove everything from that directory regardless of whether it has a file extension, just use * instead of *.* as you do for your other paths.

Upvotes: 1

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