[hewee]

Thank for the right program peters.

Looks like it does a lot more then I wanted. Hope it is easy to use.

[hewee]

I can not use the xen. After I click the 1 and it goes to the next screen it jumps up and down and I can read it.

[aarhus2004]

Hewee, hi,

If you are writing about the DOS window which opens, you must use the keyboard. if you typed 1 you then press Enter.

[hewee]

Yes that is what I did.

Hard to read but I can see a Bad command or file name at the top.

I tryied taking a screen shot but it does not show up right. Guess with the jumping up and down it is also blinking because no two screen shot show the same thing. Mean it may just show the first line or two or three lines etc.

[aarhus2004]

Hello hewee,

I am very uncertain about my ability to use this tool and my experience of it does not seem to coincide with yours. I have had no 'jumping screen'. I have now evidence that I have deleted some of the sounds which come with Me and also some fonts. How much of a problem this will be I don't know. But it does tell me that the tool does what it suggests it can/will do.

One thing which has occurred to me is that I thought files such as index,dat could not be removed while Windows was running. And yet this tool although running in DOS mode does so with Windows running..

After extracting the files (this after downloading it to begin with) I put the folder on the C drive and just use the batch file on my desktop to start the DOS window with all it options.

It is interesting, however, And it is freeware. The options for removal/deletion are numerous and a lot of them never seen by me before in the other tools I have used. Things like 'root files' and 'media files' and even screen savers.

I plan on keeping it for the time being and taking a careful approach by asking for deletion of things I know about and checking those one by one. I find 'Spider' very handy for confirming or denying the success of deletions.

Then there are the registry options too. It really is an interesting tool but probably not for the real newbie.

More as time time goes by, hewee. Thanks for your input.

[hewee]

aarhus2004,

Thanks for the info. I know it does a lot more then I wanted because I only want something for the index.dat.
How do I make a batch file to clear the index.dat?

[GoJoAGoGo]

hewee:

Perhaps this thread may be what you're looking for. It contains a few different ways to create a batch file for deleting index.dat files.

http://forums.techguy.org/showthread...dat+Batch+File

[hewee]

Thanks Go.

[GoJoAGoGo]

You're welcome, hope it helps.

[hewee]

Me too.

Now can I just pick what lines I want?
Only want to do the index file.

I have to watch it on programs that clean out the windows temp file.
Have some programs that keep things in there I want. Don't know why they use that folder but they do and I have no option to change it.

[pgwalters]

For removing index.dat files in Windows 2000, I found another way to get it done for me. For my own private machine (or any machine that you have local admin rights to create user accounts) I created another admin account. I then login under that account and simply delete the ones under the user profile I use, since they don't get opened if you log in under another name. As for actually deleting the files, you can do it manually, with script, with a Delphi program (my choice) or C++ program or VB or Java, etc., or any other way you would like to locate and delete the files. Since they are not open, they are not locked. One way I working on is to add a scheduled task to the "other" login that run a program to delete the files and then log out. But using another account is the idea. I suppose that should work for Xp also, but I have not tried it. Hope this helps.

[smidgen]

A very small program that will delete your index.dat I've used it for some time and has never made any trouble .
Click on the address below and Scroll down until you see "Iecache2.js" does not work with xp


http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Tweekz.htm

[GoJoAGoGo]

smidgen:

Thanks, I'll check out the program.

[hewee]

I just got the iecache2.js.

It says...

Instructions for Use

Download the file to your hard disk. Double-click the filename to run the file. Follow the instructions to reboot after the file has run.

But if I click on it I get the open with box.

[smidgen]

Maybe it has something to do with your antivirus , I had the same thing happen when PcCillin changed something so I could no longer use that program nor could i any longer delete index using dos. I know before PcCillin I used it for almost two years. Sorry! I thought maybe it would be an easy fix. I think the person that wrote that program will accept emails, I'll ask why it wont work.