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takeown /R /F "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temporary Internet Files"

Delete the files in the folder.

del "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temporary Internet Files\*"

Delete the subfolders in ‘Temporary Internet Files’

forfiles /P "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temporary Internet Files\*" /C "cmd /c if @isdir==TRUE rmdir /S /Q @file"

Application temporary files

del %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\* forfiles /P %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\ /C "cmd /c if @isdir==TRUE rmdir /S /Q @file"

We can also verify that the environment variables TEMP or TMP points to this folder.

c:\> set t
c:\> set TEMP=C:\Users\loginId\AppData\Local\Temp
c:\> set TMP=C:\Users\loginId\AppData\Local\Temp

So deletion of temp files can also be done using this environment variable

del %TEMP%\* forfiles /P %TEMP%\* /C "cmd /c if @isdir==TRUE rmdir /S /Q @file"

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