In reply to Scott Hanselmann's post on freeing up disc space I'd like to share a batch that I've written some time ago to clear different temp directories for instance before I run a backup. the referenced file "cleanup.txt" just contains the text "yes" (w/o quotes) to automate the cacls command.
@Echo off
for /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%i in ("%USERPROFILE%") do (set user=%%i) 2>&1
@Echo on
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Burn\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Transcoded Files Cache\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.*"
rmdir "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp" /S /Q
mkdir "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\1.0\Cache\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\WebTempDir\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS\*.*"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Transcoded Files Cache\*.*"
rmdir "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Transcoded Files Cache" /S /Q
del /F /S /Q "C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache\*.*"
rmdir "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files" /S /Q
mkdir "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files"
cacls "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files" /g "System":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files" /e /g "Administrators":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files" /e /g "Network Service":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files" /e /g "IISWPG":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Windows\Temp\*.*"
rmdir "C:\Windows\Temp" /S /Q
mkdir "C:\Windows\Temp"
cacls "C:\Windows\Temp" /g "System":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\Windows\Temp" /e /g "Users":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\Windows\Temp" /e /g "Administrators":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
cacls "C:\Windows\Temp" /e /g "Network Service":F < "D:\Tools\cleanup.txt"
del /F /S /Q "C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files\*.*"
rmdir "C:\MSOCache" /S /Q
rmdir "C:\SWSetup" /S /Q
pause