[IMP49]

I use Xen, nice little software, free, easy to use, a lot of options, does not need to be run in dos, can be found by doing a google search for Xen .

Regards
Peters321

[hewee]

Thanks but I did a search for it and I can't find it.

[aarhus2004]

I guess (he - Peters321)you mean a Zen search on Google for Zen!

[hewee]

I did but I can't find it. Lots of things on Zen but not for what I want.

[IMP49]

Hi hewee, this will get you there http://www.x9000.net/ there are also other Xen type programs there also with explanations as to their capabilities.

Regards
Peters321

[IMP49]

Hey aarhus 2004, try http://www.x9000.net/ you should find Xen there along with other programs, and their functions.

Regards
Peters321

[IMP49]

Sorry guys, I know why it couldn`t be found, talk about a bonehead mistake, it`s because it`s name is XEN, not zen, for some reason I couldn`t tell the diff between a X, and a Z, surely it couldn`t be the 6pack I had earlier. Please forgive.

Regards
Peters321

[aarhus2004]

Hi, Peters321,

Poor hewee and me - looking for the magic in Zen... but thanks for the Xorrection.

[Bold_Fortune]

I have the solution. You're not going to believe this. It's just too funny.

I can permanently delete my index.dat files just by clearing in Internet Properties.... Delete Cookies, Delete Files, Clear History.

You'll never guess how I did it. I'm tellin' ya, it's rally, rally wierd.

I was having some serious problems with the location and size of my Temporary Internet Files. Something was changing the location to

C:\Documents and Settings\tony\Local Settings\Temp

Instead of F:\ For my RamDisk.

And the allocated size was jumping to 225MB from 60MB.

I couldn't figure it out. And it wouldn't allow me to change it back.

I was thinking maybe it was Sun Java...because that was the last thing I installed before I noticed this problem. I tried everything.

I thought I was done, and would have to re-install. So I used a fresh install I backed up onto a CD, which I keep stored for emergencies.

So I revert back, and I set about to re-do a year and a half worth of changes I had made on my current installation. I felt like crying.

All my system changes for a year and a half down the tubes. I was so proud of not needing to re-install XP for that long of a period.

So I apply all my tweaks...then backed up. Then I installed all my programs...then I backed up.

Then I notice I have the same problem with the Temporary Internet Files, again. What's going on?

So I revert back, and start installing programs one at a time.

Again it happens.

Anyway, to make a painful story short. It was RamDisk all along that was causing the problem.

In lies the my solution for index.dat files. You're going to love this.

I uninstall RamDisk. I restart. I run Spider to remove the index,dat files, and reboot. I move my Temporary Internet Folder back to where it belongs.

I delete it's contents with the Internet Options, (Delete Cookies, Delete Files, Clear History.)...and poof the index.dat file are gone.

And they only come back when I reboot.

Go figure that one.

Anyway, I'm, backup and running with my year-and-a-half-old installation...I just repeated this process on my current installation...after having practicing it on the fresh install.

So, I guess you could say I'm index.dat free by accident.

[aarhus2004]

Trying again. I lost my first attempt!

Re: XEN at http://www.x9000.net/

Hewee, get in on this will you?

I downloaded Xen and placed the whole thing on C. I was guessing about his word "archive".

I ran it and was confronted, in a DOS window, by the most extraordinary array of options. I was very unsure about many of them - said no to those, the rest I was in two minds about and, figuring I had a restore point (maybe), I went for them. So far so good.

However I would like the opinions of the multitudes who have the experience on these forums. This tool is potential dynamite from my point of view - extraordinary, is one word. But I know next to nothing.

So set to, guys and gals, if you please, if it pleasures you.

[GoJoAGoGo]

Ben:

Playing with dynamite can be hazardous to your O/S. Be careful mate!!!

[IMP49]

Hey glad to see you were able to get it, did you dl the Xen, and the Xentweak also? I do know there were some items it does I was not sure of also, but I think it is a dynamite little program. You know what they say, if you`re not sure say no.

Regards
Peters321

[aarhus2004]

Hi GoJoAGoGo, that is what my daddy used to tell me but not what he used to show me!

Hello Peters321,

The Xentweak? Cough cough, well err... not quite yet; thought I would save that one, if I am still here, for tomorrow.

[IMP49]

Just got through running a session of Xen, and freed up a bunch of kbs, and I mean a bunch. Of course you can`t be to careful if you don`t understand an option, the way I approached learning what I do know is if I didn`t think I could do without what it wanted to know if I wanted deleted, I wouldn`t delete it. Always lean on the side of caution. Good luck

Regards
Peters321

[jonuck]

Many thanks to Peters321 for pointing the way to the best utility I have seen thus far for doing everything it claims to. I would have been more than happy for it to remove the baggage of Temp files, History and Cookies but this utility does Oh so much more. I went through the gamut of it's options and finished up on startup with 85% of my resources, my page opening speed was noticebly faster and I only have a 500 Mhz donkey. The laddie who devised this must surely deserve some recognition.

jonuck.