Hi Terry,

I use a freeware/shareware product called MyPrivacy which does a good job of clearing internet caches and, optionally, various document/recently used lists, recycle bin, etc.
http://www.omniquad.com/Omniquad_MyPrivacy.htm

>>>With UNIX, there were loggers and sniffers that reported in realtime when someone outside my box was "fooling" around. It would be nice for Windows to offer a program that listed what process on box requsted the outside file, and who owned those process and files that were retieved.
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>>There are: see http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
>>Process Explorer shows every thread running on your nt/2k/xp box, and what files/handles/etc each has open.
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>>>XP is beginning to look more and more like a adware container!
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>>Are you surprised?
>No - just being vocal:) Thanx for the link!