OK I am a newbie and just joined the forum. From a perusal in Search on DAT files I seem to come to the conclusion that it is better to leave all DAT files in place as browser is faster in finding what you ask for. I have been using CCleaner for the last four years, win XP sp3, and I think it is the best & safest. I just happen to come across ACESOFT's SuperWINSP IDEX.Dat Viewer, which discovered that I have Total URLs Index dat files 4739. Is this considered to be very high ? I have no problem with IE as it still functions normally. Shall I just ignore it and "leave well alone" ?
goff123, welcome.
index.dat files keep growing and keep a record of all sites you visit so they represent a privacy issue.From a perusal in Search on DAT files I seem to come to the conclusion that it is better to leave all DAT files in place as browser is faster in finding what you ask for.
CCleaner does a good job at cleaning up some index.dat files but it does not clean them all.
Index.dat Suite ( Freeware ) does the best job of finding all index.dat files and scheduling a cleanup at the next boot up.
It also has a good viewer and cleaner of several Windows tracking files plus you can set it to do a defrag before Windows applications are loaded:
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Product...=Index.datSuite