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reply to RdKryton
Re: [Windows] Dr. Delete: Remove in-use files!

Hi RdKryton

index.dat file in your temporary internet files is another way of tracking where you have visited....

for eg: go to your TIFS [Temporary Internet Files] look for the index.dat file in there, right click and choose Open with... Notepad.. you will see a lot of gobblygook BUT you will also see the URLs of sites you have visited....

I have mine set up to delete each time I reboot...

Now, you can't delete it by simply clicking delete, you need some sort of program to do it for you as it's a system file...

Once deleted, Windows WILL RE-CREATE it for you back to the default 32Kb size... I have seen some index.dat files up to 1Mb and higher, so you can imagine how much info was stored in there... Mine was originally up to 1.8Mb until I discovered a tool to remove it upon reboot.

HTH..

tds
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