Hi Jeremy, the index.dat is a component of the cookies which is not deleted by normal cleaning. Many poeple are worried that information of a personal nature may be in there. See; Deleting Index.dat--What is index.dat? How to delete index.dat ...... www.acesoft.net/delete_index.dat_files.htm mike the mod ******* Mike's REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 1/18/2005 at 11:54 PM Jeremy Harrison wrote: A question which comes out of this (and isn't obviously answered by the web-site) - why should I want it? - i.e. what's an index.dat file and why might I want to get rid of them? Jeremy --- Mike <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Index.dat Suite > > Current Version: 2.7.5 > Freeware > http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=index.datsuite ~*~*~*~*~ For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info 1stpicksoftware" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpicksoftware-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~