To: 1stFreedom
WARNING! I think this is a HOAX! DO NOT delete index.dat until you speak to your system manager!
To: TheJollyRoger; Admin Moderator
perhaps a quick check would be in order before promoting something that can damage our computers?
To: TheJollyRoger
bump for later read
30 posted on
01/21/2003 1:17:33 PM PST by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods!)
To: TheJollyRoger
Turned on my computer last night and all my personal "Favorites" were gone. Ive got Window's 2000. Any ideas?
To: TheJollyRoger
WARNING! I think this is a HOAX! DO NOT delete index.dat until you speak to your system manager! Good advice but it's not a hoax in that the information is correct about the file growing in size. It shouldn't just be deleted though. In fact it CAN'T be deleted when IE is running.
There is a utility you can download called delindex.bat. It takes some configuration to do it right and is definitely not something to be tried by anyone not familiar with the process of setting up .bat files and Windows startup.
I've used it on a number of Win 98 type machines and it does make IE load and run faster. Nothing more.
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