Clean Index.dat with Windows Index.dat Cleaner
ADVERTISEMENTSIndex.dat, A Windows system files that contain all the record that tracks of your online activity, where have you been on Internet, what sites you visited, list of URL-s, files and documents you recently accessed. Plus more, its role is similar to that of an index file in the field of databases, where a technique called “indexing” stores the contents of a database in a different order to help speed up query responses. Furthermore, Index.dat files stored on your computer are obviously a potential privacy threat as they can be found and viewed without your knowledge.
While doing research on Index.dat, Microsoft has not supplied an adequate explanation as to what these files are for or why they have been hidden so well. The only is these index.dat files are used to store cache of visited sites to speed up the loading of sites in Internet Explorer. But this cannot be the case because when we delete the Temporary Internet Files the “index.dat” files remain behind. Irrespective of whatever program you have been using to clean windows history they may clean but does not delete index.dat files on your computer as they protected in real time by windows operating system.
So, here is free index.dat cleaner programs which lets you either clean the index.dat files or clean sensitive information that store on index.dat
Free Index.dat Cleaner / Remover Software:
Index.dat Analyser – Index.dat viewer and remover

A free Windows index.dat analyser program that allow you lets you browse and delete index.dat files on your stored at different paths on your computer. Meanwhile, Index.dat analyser interface is quite easy to use as you can check all the files and click the delete button ( Red cross sign ) and get rid of everything. So, you can delete the evidence entries you want to get rid off. No harm to your system or OS can be made, everything will continue to function as if was prior to deleting them. Plus more, index.dat analyser can run on Windows XP and Vista.
Privacy Guardion – Free Windows Privacy cleaner

Privacy Guardian Completely cleans all traces of online Internet activities on your computer including cache, cookies, index.dat and history. Plus more, Privacy Guardian also restores valuable hard drive space and speeds up system performance by cleaning out old and unused temporary records. It allows you to simply and securely erases privacy sensitive files from Windows, Microsoft Office, Netscape, Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer.
Privacy Mantra – Index.dat Cleaner

Privacy Mantra is a simple index.dat cleaner program that allows you to clean tracks by deleting or clean the existing index.dat files on your computer. It will erase and wash away most privacy threats in your machine including, Internet history, cache, cookies, index.dat files, auto-complete forms, search assistant, recent documents, open/save dialogs, run files, Mozilla Firefox, Google Toolbar and more.
So, you can use above program are free to use and lets you delete or clean the index.dat files on your computer which may become a privacy threat for you. if you know other index.dat remover, let us know.
Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by km in Freeware, Software, Tips, Utilities
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