

I booted in safe mode under another administrator acct. It can NOT see the History.IE5\index.dat, but CAN see content.IE5\index.dat - but only shows it in the right pane, not in the folder tree. I want to be able to delete the files (sometimes), and verify that.Īpps like Kaspersky AV CAN see the index.dat files in both problem folders - the History.IE5 and Content.IE5 subfolders, when I scan the folders.įree Commander file mgr can see them - sort of.

We have to use IE to log into certain sites, like work. Who cares? Cause I know they're there, but can't see them. You say, "That's great! Tell me how to get rid of the index.dat files for good!" Well.they're still there, they just don't show up in Explorer, for that one acct. Other accounts still display properly, but don't all have an index.dat in all the 'normal' folders - no internet activity under them. Two index.dat files and subfolders in my main acct ( only that one) don't show up in explorer like they should. All other index.dat files stored under other accts were all cleaned at the same time - no issues w/ them. Rebooted couple of times, opened /closed IE a few times (loading websites each time). I used CCleaner to clean cookies & index.dat files from IE7.
