I have xp home.  There is a picture wizzard that captures all the
images that you have looked at on the web.  When you go to view a
scanned document, these images appear.  How do I delete them - some of
them are web porn and I don't want the family to enjoy them.

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Request for Question Clarification by aditya2k-ga on 14 Nov 2002 12:48 PST

Would you like to delete the images altogether? or do you want to
disable this wizard?

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Request for Question Clarification by slawek-ga on 14 Nov 2002 13:00 PST

Good Day ej1216,

What do you mean by a picture wizard?  I am using xp and did not find
anything like it, but I did install a bare OS.

What might help is the deleting the internet temporary files. To do
this in IE go to the Internet Options option in the tools menu, and in
the general tab click "Delete Files". I would also suggest deleting
cookies, although this will wipe out all your web site settings for
all websites. This might be a problem if you use cookies for some
quick access for many web sites. Further, clearing the history bar
will delete all addresses which you might have typed in manually.

If this is the answer you were looking for, please let me know and I
will officially answer the question. If however, the image wizard you
are refering to still has the images in it's memory after completing
the above steps, please let me know and I will find a new answer to
your question which will allow you to achieve what you seek.


Regards,
slawek-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by super-ga on 14 Nov 2002 13:27 PST

Hello ej1216-ga,

I do not know of any embedded Win XP wizard that captures images from
the internet.

There are several possibilities:

1. you have a specific picture wizard that captures the images from
the websites you surfed on.

If so please tell me the name of that wizard and I will tell you how
to disable it or how to delete the images.

2. you are talking about the cache or the Temporary Internet File
folder where images are saved while you browse the internet for faster
loading of the web pages.

To clean up the cache do:

a. for Internet Explorer browser:
- Tools -> Internet Options...->Delete Files (check Delete all offline
content also) . You can also Clear History and Delete cookies so you
clean up all the traces to those websites.

b. for Netscape browser:
- Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced-> Cache-> Clear Memory Cache and
Clear Disk cache
- Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator-> Clear History and Clear Location
Bar

What do you mean by a "scanned document"?

Thank you.

super-ga

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Clarification of Question by ej1216-ga on 16 Nov 2002 05:34 PST

1.  For aditya2k-ga:
I want to know how to delete the images.
2.  For slawek-ga :
After I have scanned in a document and go to find/print it, a wizzard
pops up with all the images I have looked at - both web images and
stuff like screen savers from homexp.  100's of images.

I will try your solution.
3.  For super-ga:
I need to find the wizzard, don't know the name right now.  I will get
back to you.  "Scanned document"-I have a new scanner and I scanned in
a one page document.

Dear ej1216-ga:

The images you are seeing are the result of “cached” images imbedded
in one or more of your “temp” folders. They are placed there
automatically in order to help speed up browsing in the event that you
should return to one of the pages you have previously visited. Rather
than load them from the Internet, which may have a slower connection,
the images are pulled directly from your own computer and displayed to
you, giving you the feeling that you are seeing them on the Internet,
when actually you are looking at copies of them stored on your own
computer. This technology allows the majority of your connection speed
to focus on loading anything new from the page that might not have
been cached on your previous visit.

You can follow the directions here in order to clean these images up:

http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/jul02/250702.html

An alternative solution (and a much simpler one) is to down load the
small program called ‘Window Washer’. It will delete the images from
your cache as often as you want it to and will free up disk space,
delete history, erase tracks and much more. You can set the program to
“wash” each time you boot the computer up, turn the computer off, or
every so often according to your needs. Additionally, you can “wash’
manually whenever you think it is necessary. In my opinion, it works
fabulously.

http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spow.asp?ID=298

As with any program of course, you use it at your own risk, but I have
used the program for several years and I have been very pleased with
the amount of space it routinely recovers and with the number of other
jobs it does automatically. This program is also customizable so you
can set it to clear out the contents of any other folder, history or
drop down field you so desire.

I hope this provides a solution to your problem. 

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga

“WUGNET - Window Washer”
http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spow.asp?ID=298

“How to clean out unwanted files that are hidden on your hard drive”
http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/jul02/250702.html


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Great answer, good sources that I can use next time.