Drew99GT Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I saw in a thread at Wilders that CCleaner really does not delete index.dat files. What's up with that? True, or BS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 not quite sure. http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showto...index\.dat may have some useful info there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I think it's true. All they are is files that contain the history of websites you visted. No harm in delelting them. They are also known as Cookies to some people. Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition | COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 with 4 120mm Blue LED FANS 1 Regular 120MM FAN and a Custom Window Side Panel | AMD Athlon II x4 2.6GHZ Stock| XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm | ASRock A780GXE/128 | G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) @800MHZ | CF 2 XFX 4850 1GB @GPU940/MEM1005 | 320GB/OS 160GB/Storage HDDs | LG CD/DVD SATA | Rosewill 600W 2 12v Rail@44 | Ccleaner, Defraggler | Malwarebytes', SUPERAnti-Spyware | Avira AntiVir Personal | Google Chrome v3/4, IE8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 i thought cookies were only in the cookie folder? also, the point of CCleaner is to erase your history so i think that MrG set it up to clean them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Cookies can be stored in other folders as well. Don't no where but as far as I know they are stored in different folders I believe. Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition | COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 with 4 120mm Blue LED FANS 1 Regular 120MM FAN and a Custom Window Side Panel | AMD Athlon II x4 2.6GHZ Stock| XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm | ASRock A780GXE/128 | G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) @800MHZ | CF 2 XFX 4850 1GB @GPU940/MEM1005 | 320GB/OS 160GB/Storage HDDs | LG CD/DVD SATA | Rosewill 600W 2 12v Rail@44 | Ccleaner, Defraggler | Malwarebytes', SUPERAnti-Spyware | Avira AntiVir Personal | Google Chrome v3/4, IE8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 CCleaner does not wipe the index.dat-files. They will remain in your system with their contents. In addition, the index.dat-files are protected by the running system. Microsoft claims that is for web-page-load-speed-up - what is actually not true. Check for the following issues: a. Do you have a limited User-Account on XP? b. Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist<number>\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Cookies\index.dat you can delete those Registry-Entries manually, but I can recommend a free software that is doing the job for you. http://www.browsertools.net/downloads/IEPr...KeeperSetup.exe Oliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew99GT Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 So essentially no system cleaning software/privacy software can rid the system of index.dat files because that's the nature of Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 There are a number of programs available that will flag index.dat files to be removed on the next windows boot. This one, for example: http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Product...=index.datsuite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 CCleaner does not wipe the index.dat-files. They will remain in your system with their contents. In addition, the index.dat-files are protected by the running system. Microsoft claims that is for web-page-load-speed-up - what is actually not true. Check for the following issues: a. Do you have a limited User-Account on XP? b. Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist<number>\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Cookies\index.dat you can delete those Registry-Entries manually, but I can recommend a free software that is doing the job for you. http://www.browsertools.net/downloads/IEPr...KeeperSetup.exe Oliver I am running XP and CCleaner cleaned out Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist<number>\index.dat It didn't clean out Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Cookies\index.dat but that is a tiny 46 kb file I don't see the Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat are you sure that is the correct path. I looked at the dat files and they were very small before they were removed. How can that be when they log every web site you visit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 So essentially no system cleaning software/privacy software can rid the system of index.dat files because that's the nature of Windows? It is possible to delete protected files too, but usually not when Windows is loaded. But it can be scheduled to be removed at next startup or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Anthony wrote: I looked at the dat files and they were very small before they were removed. How can that be when they log every web site you visit The size of a clean Cookies index.dat file is 16 KB. The size of a clean History index.dat file is also 16 KB. When clean, the size of Temporary Internet Files (Cache) index.dat file is 32 KB. Index.dat files only store the references of visited wep-pages, not the wep-pages itsself. Another approach to delete index.dat files manually (xp, nt, 2000) might be, to log-in with a different (temporary) user-account and trying to delete the index.dat files out of your own account, since win xp doesn?t take a hold on those files anymore when logged in with a different user-name. For 98 and Me you can delete the whole C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\ HISTORY.IE5 folder with its content into the receycle-bin and restart the system immediately afterwards. The folder will be recovered empty with a pure index.dat file after reboot. Oliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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