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| Thread ID: 39746 | 2003-11-16 02:59:00 | XP TIP: Delete index.dat(s) | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 192406 | 2003-11-17 07:49:00 | Just saw your second post agent. Basically index.dat stores history of sites visited, and cookies stored in the Cookies folder etc. I still havent really fathomed the various folders that contain virtually the same things, like several cookie folders with their own index.dat. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192407 | 2003-11-17 07:51:00 | Oh dear, forgot Fire and Ice, Im running XP Pro SP1. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192408 | 2003-11-17 09:36:00 | Heres another tricky way of deleting the index.dat file. It works in Win2k but Im not sure about XP. Start up a Dos window and navigate to the director where the index file is stored. Now Ctrl Alt Del and end task explorer. Then flick back to your dos window and hey presto you should be able to delete that dirty index.dat file. Now close your dos window and start up a new instance of explorer and you're away. Does someone want to try this in XP and see if it works? |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 192409 | 2003-11-17 09:49:00 | Works in XP too, but you do have to close every open window first. | agent (30) | ||
| 192410 | 2003-11-17 10:11:00 | I don't use IE and find my index.dat to be very boring. :D | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 192411 | 2003-11-17 21:47:00 | Thanks Barnabas for that tip. It works in XP too, but also if del /s /q "C:\documents and settings\index.dat" is used to delete, then all three index.dat are deleted in the user profile, the extra switches in delete command are quite useful. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192412 | 2003-11-17 23:05:00 | If really want a usefull cli for Doze why not try Cgywin-www.cygwin.com Lots and lots of commands/usefull switches. XPs default cli is boooooring in compared to it. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 192413 | 2003-11-18 00:05:00 | Terry I'm a late arrival on this thread. Tell me again why you want to get rid of this folder/file? I too run XP Pro and might have a dabble with it if the outcome is worthwhile. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 192414 | 2003-11-18 00:25:00 | Yes, Cygwin is a very darned useful command shell port. Only grudge I have is that it takes so long to download even a relatively small amount of the packages (mainly because 'relatively small' isn't that small compared to the entire range of packages) on dial-up. Still haven't figured out how to get Apache running in it either, let alone finding the manual for fetchmail :D |
agent (30) | ||
| 192415 | 2003-11-18 00:41:00 | > Thanks Barnabas for that tip. It works in XP too, but also if del /s /q "C:\documents and settings\index.dat" is used to delete, then all three index.dat are deleted in the user profile, the extra switches in delete command are quite useful. Yup that works. Now is there a command that can be used inside the cmd prompt to kill the explorer process?? I thought of 'net stop explorer.exe' but that obviously doesn't work. So if we can come up with a command that shuts down explorer, deletes all the index.dats and then restarts explorer we can put all that into a batch file. |
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