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Eusing Registry Cleaner was my favourite till I migrated to Windows 7. And then I found that the Registry Cleaner in Glary Utilities ditto the same. I have come to believe that it is the same engine. So I did not install Eusing registry Cleaner in Windows 7.

Is it better than Ccleaner? Based from the description of the software, it mainly cleans that off IE's traces on the internet while other browsers are not mentioned. .

Hum Captain I am just curious (as always) as to what level of competence one needs for this app?

Well offline registry editing manual Malware removal etc. are little too complicated for end users so if you know registry and system files etc. these files could stop system from booting and damage MBR etc.

I just read about this a moment ago.

way too complicated

I ran CCleaner. Then rebooted. Then I did some surfing, never opening IE(or any browser that uses IE engine, like MaxThon.) Then I ran Window Washer. It told me it found several entries in index.dat files that it overwrote. Maybe some network guru can answer but it seems it tracks you no matter the browser. I'll have to look into it more but Window Washer has the advantage of overwriting the data without rebooting. When you run CCleaner all the stuff in the index.dat stays there until next boot when the files are deleted.

edit: I wouldn't count on a one step solution. The only technique I tried so far that seemed to work was loading every index.dat file into IndexDatSpy and if it had any data, selecting "delete on next reboot" from the File Menu. It has a function to search for all the index.dat files, but then it doesn't let you mark them all for deletion. I don't have the help file so I'm winging it. Seems like a really tedious process.

If anyone has IndexDatSpy.hlp I'd appreciate a copy.

edit2: what confuses the issue is other stuff besides IE stores info in index.dat files. I am guessing the reason IndexDatSpy leaves it at manual deletion is it assumes you only care about the IE tracking. Seems even if you do stuff like use the Services Applet to look at your services a little note is placed in an index.dat. Also if WMP network sharing service is running, it won't let you delete them. Only sure way to get 'em all is to use a script run using the registry RunOnce key that searches the entire system drive and deletes them.

That might be worth doing if you boot your machine every day. Does slow down the boot a bit but not terrible.

On another note I assumed CCleaner just deleted on next boot. But I didn't see it creating any RunOnce string. Also on their forum it claims to delete or overwrite them in place. I dunno'.

I wrote a small utility called RunItOnce to add a program to the Windows Registry RunOnce key. If you're not familiar with that key, how it works is a program is added to the key as a string value. On next boot, the program is run, and then Windows removes it from the registry.

It's good for tasks that won't work if Windows is fully engaged. One example is deleting all the index.dat files on the system partition.

Here's a link to RunItOnce page:
Faves Downloads

Please see the included Readme.txt for usage details.

Also I'll post the index.dat cleaner code if you wish to use it. To run or compile the script you should first get and install AutoHotKey_L

Note that the AHK script will not work run normally since Windows doesn't like you deleting index.dat files once the system is up. It will work via the RunOnce key. That's why I wrote the RunItOnce program as it seemed like a simple utility to make this type of thing convenient.

I recommend you only run IndexDotDatCleaner on occasion. Maybe once a month. It will slow your boot down because it scans the entire system partition looking for index.dats and deleting them. That's why it's a good candidate for RunItOnce. You don't want to run it every boot.

Here's the AHK script

Edit: If you have a 64 bit system make sure to compile the AutoHotKey_L script above as a 64 bit application. Otherwise folder redirection will keep it from seeing and deleting the index.dat files that really store the data.

For help using AutoHotKey_L scripts and compiler look here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic34070.html

hi all

i found this UnCleaner - The Unnecessary Files Cleaner Solution by Josh Cell Softwares
works ok for me on windows 7 nice and simple program to use.

LINK >>> Josh Cell Softwares: UnCleaner - The Unnecessary Files Cleaner Solution

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I have only one question... Does Revo Uninstaller Free version works good with Windows 7 x64bit ?
Because I see this on the Revo's website:



Free version don't have full support of x64bit.