mystified Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Hi. Haven't been around awhile because the computer's running pretty smooth (thanks to your help in the past ) However, I have recommended your site to several people with spyware problems. I hope they came here for help instead of trying it by themselves. Well, all I can do is recommend...what they do is up to them.Anyway, I'm trying to clean a bunch of crap out of my computer, and have done all the manual stuff. Now, all I have left is index.dat. I've read that it's a simple procedure in 98SE, but all I can find are tutorials for XP (I tried your search feature). What I've read is that I can boot into MS DOS and clear them out with the command line. Problem is, I've never booted into MS DOS mode, and don't know what commands to enter. I've also read that if I delete the index.dat folder, windows will create a new, empty one the next time I log on. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks for any help.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 XP does not have DOS. Here are a few apps. to try. The 1st, CCleaner is nice but I'm not sure about index.dat filesMarkccleanerOneTwoThree free trial Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 CCleaner will delete the Index.dat. Be careful of what you check for cleaning when setting it up. When downloading it uncheck the Yahoo Toolbar option. Also if you attempt to run the Issues option beware of what is on the list before allowing the fix. Always allow it to backup. Create a folder in My Documents for CC Backup. If something is broken you can just double click the backup file to restore it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mystified Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Well, you did it again, Terrorist I followed your directions and it worked great. Much appreciated. Thanks, too, to garmanma for posting the link...made it much easier. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mystified Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Now, just one more question. This worked great in 98SE. Now, I find I might be getting a used computer from a friend with XP on it. Will Ccleaner work the same for it? Should anything be done differently? If I get this, I want to get rid of all the index.dat, temp files, etc. from a previous user (I don't care about viewing them...just want to get rid of them). Thanks for any help Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Yes it will be the same for XP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mystified Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Yes it will be the same for XP.Thanks so much....again Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 If you get install discs, I would reload windows XP. Since it will be your computer, you should start fresh and clean. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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