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Next time tell us what program up front and you'd have your answer in a post or two.
You can mark this thread Solved at top.
Next time tell us what program up front and you'd have your answer in a post or two.
You can mark this thread Solved at top.
+1 Agreed.
Hello,
Running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit.
For what it’s worth, an observation:
I turned IE Explorer 8 “off” (start / control panel / programs and features / Turn Windows Features On or Off / Uncheck Internet Explorer 8) as I use Firefox and thought turning off IE would reduce background memory usage and close any vulnerabilities. However, even when turned “off”, it still seems run in the background. I say this because when running CCleaner, items from IE still show up as having been cleaned, such as History, index.dat and temp. files.
I tried an experiment by blocking IE with Zone Alarm firewall while IE was “off” but found some sites would not function properly. Unblocking restored full function. So it seems that some sites/software needs IE to function.
IE won't use any resources while left enabled but not used. It isn't an issue.
What can be an issue is using a 3rd party firewall on Win7 which works best using it's own firewall with a lightweight AV like Microsoft Security Essentials or Avast 6, not old-school bloatware AV's and firewalls.
To my knowledge index.dat files are created on reboot no matter what you do. You can delete them but the zombies keep coming back. :)
I never run IE but I just searched with Everything Search and I have dozens of index.dat files. I have it set in CCleaner to remove them. I run CCleaner several times a day. But there are plenty of non-empty index.dat files on my system.
In fact I'm starting to wonder if CCleaner works. I just ran it and immediately checked with Everything Search after rescanning the drives. All kinds of index.dat with stuff in them. Weird!!
I wouldn't run CCleaner more than once monthly, followed by a defrag done in boot mode with Puran Defragger.
I set my browsers to delete temporary internet files when closed.
Nothing else bothers me there. Should it?
I've been advised for years by those I respect not to overdo it on CCleaner and have found monthly is what works best for me. Others have their own rhythms.
You can't delete index.dat while Windows is running except in safe mode. All these cleaners mark for deletion on boot. Doesn't sound like privacy to me.
I just tried killing them with Privacy Mantra. Refused to delete 2 index.dat files. This crap has been going on since Win98 if not earlier. I never even open IE and I get this crap. Must be built into the networking.