Windows Vista has a feature that automatically completes the address of the website that we are typing. The web site address is obtained from a file called index.dat which contains addresses of web sites that we have visited.
For those who are sensitive to privacy issues, this feature can be a bit problem. From the list, other people can recognize the sites that you ever visited. To deal with the problem, you can simply delete index.dat files.
But, deleting index.dat files is not as easy as deleting some other files. For, this file is used throughout the session. and as we know that file systems being used can’t be deleted.
If you want to get rid of index.dat from your system, you can do these simple steps.
- Restart your computer and press the [F8] on the keyboard several times at the beginning of the boot menu to display the Safe mode.
- Select [Safe Mode with Command Prompt], and press [Enter]. Windows will continue loading.
- When the login window popped up, enter your user name with the password, don’t’ forget, the account should have administrator privilege.
- After the Command Prompt window is active, you are in the folder C: Users-your user name. Go to C: Users-User name-your-AppData-Roaming-Microsoft-Windows-Cookies by typing the command “AppData cd-Roaming-Microsoft-Windows-Cookies” followed by pressing [Enter].
- Type the command “del index.dat” in the Command Prompt. Press [Enter].
- Restart Windows.
- Returning to Windows, you will see the index.dat files. However, the file is empty.
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