How to delete the CSC Offline Files Cache in Windows 7

This article explains how to delete the CSC Offline Files Cache in Windows 7.

Windows 7 does not provide user interface to delete the Offline Files Cache (CSC Cache). Numerous issues are known to occur and often the only way to resolve these problems is to delete the CSC cache. This article describes how to delete the Windows 7 Offline Files Cache or CSC Cache:

- Right click the command prompt icon and click Run As Administrator (See picture below)

- In the elevated command prompt window, type in the command below and press Enter

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

- Now simply restart your computer and the CSC offline files cache will be deleted.

That is how to delete the CSC Offline Files Cache in Windows 7.

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