On 9 Nov 2003 00:42:50 -0800, 8192@ny.com (8192) wrote:

>Does anyone know what index.dat files are really for? And why they
>can't be deleted when Windows is running?

They are a record of every web site IE has ever visited. They are in
use whenever Windows is running so they can't be deleted from within
Windows. They can grow to huge sizes consuming hard disk space. I
got rid of them by creating index.dat folders which prevents Windows
from recreating the files. So far I've experienced no ill effects
from this tactic.

BTW, I'm running Win98SE. I don't know how WinXP handles these files.

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