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Index.dat are
files hidden on your computer that
contain all of the Web sites that you
have ever visited. Every URL, and
every Web page is listed there. Not
only that but all of the email that
has been sent or received through
Outlook or Outlook Express is also
being logged. The file names and
locations depend on what version of
Internet Explorer you have. If you are
running IE version 4.0 or above, the
file name is "index.dat". Microsoft
has not supplied an adequate
explanation as to what these files are
for or why they have been hidden so
well.
According to Microsoft, these files are used to cache
visited Web sites to help speed up the
loading of Web pages in Internet
Explorer. Obviously this cannot be the
case because when you clear the
Temporary Internet Files the "index.dat"
files remain behind and continue to
grow. If you delete or clear the
Temporary Internet Files, there is
absolutely no need to index the URL
cache because those files no longer
exist.
You can not view the index.dat using a normal editor
program because it's in binary format.
Index.dat Viewer can view the URLs in
these hidden index.dat files
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