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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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| 192416 | 2003-11-18 02:08:00 | When explorer gets restarted you may lose some systray icons or lose the order of them atleast. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 192417 | 2003-11-18 02:16:00 | Yes, that's why I'm not a fan of using the 'kill explorer' method. Tried it myself, but I turned my system off for the night soon after. | agent (30) | ||
| 192418 | 2003-11-18 05:01:00 | Well Scouse, there is no real reason I want to get rid of index.dat at this stage. Ive just installed XP Pro, and have become aware of all the dos-like command line parameters or commands. So deleting index.dats which can get large in the course of time seemed like a good idea to start learning something new and start delving below the XP GUI. Have to admit Im blundering about a bit. In win98 one technique was to make a dos batch file calling up the directories containing index.dat, and delete them from a boot floppy. I suppose exactly the same can be done in XP from a Win9x boot floppy if the drive is formatted fat32. My original scheme seemed to work, now Im not so sure, something has gone funny, but the later ideas work ok. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192419 | 2003-11-18 09:12:00 | Thanks for the background. For a wee while I had thought I was missing out on something........ | Scouse (83) | ||
| 192420 | 2003-11-18 09:39:00 | The problem with index.dat files is that they have been cunningly designed by Microsoft to be difficult to find and difficult to delete, not only that but are also designed to continuously grow in size, never get smaller. Left unchecked they will grow and grow and they contain details of every website you have ever visited and details of every cookie you have ever received, notwithstanding deleting Temporary Internet Files or Cookies. For the paranoic, it is not difficult to imagine MS gathering all this info via, say, Windows Update. These files have been like this ever since win 95 and IE, it has to be deliberate as they have had all the time in the world to make windows able to delete them with a click of the mouse. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 192421 | 2003-11-18 22:04:00 | I can't figure out a way to stop the explorer service from cmd prompt. Good idea though to put it in a batch file although I gave up on batch files about a month ago while trying to write nested for loops. If anyone else knows how to end the service in dos then please...share the love :-) B. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
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