

A reboot will free up the files so they can be deleted (unless you're running something at startup that runs the process as SYSTEM and writes those files). Unfortunately, occasionally either process could run as SYSTEM and generally you can't End even under an admin account. And those WebCache files will eventually return. They'll just re-start themselves when they need to.

CCleaner won't display (or clean) files in use.Īs for either of those two processes, if in Task Manager you see they're running under your user account, you can End without issue and delete the dat file.

There are times the dat file isn't listed and that's when I find it to be locked. Under that, the WebCache files are found - chk, log, jrs - and that V01.dat file, sometimes. I use CCleaner, CCEnhancer and winapp2.ini, the latter two add (among a bunch of others) an "Internet - Internet Explorer 10/11" item for cleaning. This has been my experience (in Windows 7 圆4) even though I don't use IE.
