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| Thread ID: 39746 | 2003-11-16 02:59:00 | XP TIP: Delete index.dat(s) | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 192386 | 2003-11-16 08:56:00 | .......before doing anything else....... | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192387 | 2003-11-16 09:01:00 | Oh god, I'll get it right eventually a double back slash has somehow appeared when i exported the entry , it should be: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run] "delindex"="%ComSpec% /c c:\delindex.bat" |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192388 | 2003-11-16 09:04:00 | Give up X-( Now a space has appeared in Current. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192389 | 2003-11-16 09:29:00 | Seeee MS Windows has a mind of its own ;) lol. You have been assimilated!! | mark.p (383) | ||
| 192390 | 2003-11-16 09:48:00 | Nope, still no go. :-( Even tried importing your registry file (with the space eliminated ;-) ) with no difference. It just doesn't want to work for me. :_| |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 192391 | 2003-11-16 18:54:00 | OK I'll go back to the drawing board :( One misconception Ive had is the time stamp for index.dat. I just disabled the bat file and rebooted, and all the index.dat files have the time of re-boot, so that isnt a test to check if the deletion is working. I had assumed the time stamp was the time an addition was last made. I need a larger index.dat to work with. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192392 | 2003-11-16 19:36:00 | Just looking at the batch file you've got for deleting the files, isn't that only going to delete C:\Documents and Settings\index.dat. Perhaps changing the directory to Documents and Settings or just to plain old C:\ then running the del /s index.dat | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 192393 | 2003-11-17 00:11:00 | I must have some sort of weird setup because even trying the suggestions by -=JM=- and a few of my own it still doesn't work. The only way to get rid of those index.dat files is by using a cleanup program that deletes them. :-( Thanks for the tip anyway Terry, it was a good try and if it works for you all is well and good. ;-) |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 192394 | 2003-11-17 00:59:00 | Im still at the drawing board :) The /s switch in del is supposed to go through all the sub-directories of c:\documents and settings and look for index.dat. I seem to have now got myself knotted up as I cant delete the index.dat in the Administrator folder c:\documents and settings\Terry\Cookies\index.dat (Terry is Administrator) It is all something to do with logging on as another user with administrative rights, then one is supposed to be able to delete index.dat. As something extra I've just found this site here (www.markusjansson.net) scroll down a bit to find a method of removing index.dat based on removing the folders containing index.dat. There is a .cmd file called exp.cmd which just uses the remove directory command. This works ok but as well it removes all the cookies, which is not what I want. I would like to clear the index.dat whilst leaving selected cookies. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192395 | 2003-11-17 01:26:00 | Yes you're quite right Terry, it does go through all the sub-directories, was rather early in the morning and I had messed it up somehow. Hmmm I just tried getting it to output the results to a text file... it doesn't log the "file can not be deleted" parts though. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
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