Index.dat Suite - View & Delete Index.dat Files, Temp Internet Files (TIF), Cookies, History, Temp F

[Steven]

I didnt realize the author of the programme posted here.I feel rather
cheeky now but i think that option would be very welcome.Spider adds the
generated file to the run once in the registry so that it erases on next
reboot, which does save the hassle of the manual loggin to dos etc.
tia
me

bassbag, there's no need whatsoever to feel cheeky. I actually prefer
people feel they can suggest/comment/critisize things in or about my
applications.

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

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[Steven]

Deltree is not supported on any of the NT versions of Windows (NT, 2K,
or XP). And there is no such thing as "before Windows loaded". On
those systems, you instead use the syntax:

rd /s

Here is the command line help for rmdir:

------------------
RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory
tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S
------------------

HTH,

Terry

Cheers Terry, much appreciated.

I'll work on updating Index.dat Suite to solve the NT based system
issue and should have a fixed copy online within the next 2-3 hours.

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Steven]

I'm going to have to have a look at the XP deltree issue, I wasn't
aware it didn't support it. I knew Windows itself doesn't support it,
but I didn't think it would be a problem if it was run before Windows
loaded. I'm used to working in 98se, so I'm used to DOS being present.

Deltree is not supported on any of the NT versions of Windows (NT, 2K,
or XP). And there is no such thing as "before Windows loaded". On
those systems, you instead use the syntax:

rd /s

Here is the command line help for rmdir:

------------------
RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory
tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S
------------------

HTH,

Terry

Terry,
I've modified the batch file creation process to allow for NT
based systems as per your reccomendations, along with a few other
updates (as reccomended by YK).

If you get the chance, I'd appreciate your verifying the batch file
script?

http://www.it-mate.co.uk/support/idsuite_download.asp

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[bassbag]

You should find it listed in;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

If not, let me know which version of Windows you are using and I'll
see if I can find out whats going on (I've only been able to test the
registry key on my 9x systems).

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Thanks im using w98se , im using the generator to generate the batch file
, but then what?.I dont see anything to save it to the registry key.If i
just exit after viewing the bat file nothing hapens.I have regprot which
shows any reg entries (startman too) ,and nothing seems to be writing to
the registry.Am i doing something wrong?
tia
me

 

[Terry Orchard]

Terry,
I've modified the batch file creation process to allow for NT
based systems as per your reccomendations, along with a few other
updates (as reccomended by YK).

If you get the chance, I'd appreciate your verifying the batch file
script?

Steven,

Sorry, I haven't been running your program. I was just chipping in
with some information on the NT/2K/XP world, since no one seemed to be
giving you any information beyond "deltree won't work". Perhaps YK who
was saying it wouldn't work under XP can do some testing for you.

Terry

 

[YK]

bassbag wrote:

Thanks im using w98se , im using the generator to generate the batch
file , but then what?.I dont see anything to save it to the registry
key.If i just exit after viewing the bat file nothing hapens.I have
regprot which shows any reg entries (startman too) ,and nothing
seems to be writing to the registry.Am i doing something wrong?

As I have not used Win98SE for 3 years my recollection of this old venerable
operating system may be fuzzy but I believe that you have to boot to that
wonderfull thing called MS-DOS and run the run.bat. There is no concept of
RunOnce in Win98SE as it only became available in WinME and the WinNT/2K/XP
varients.

Click on the icon that looks like a DOS prompt after you do a Find.
Or Tools >> Generate file. Works for me but the .bat file needs some work
for WinXP but that will be fixed.

I use WinPatrol and it pops up a warning that the RunOnce key wants to be
modified so it is working in WinXP Home.

BTW, it is one of the fastest file searchers I have seen. Kudos to Stephen.

 

[YK]

Steven,

Sorry, I haven't been running your program. I was just chipping in
with some information on the NT/2K/XP world, since no one seemed to be
giving you any information beyond "deltree won't work". Perhaps YK who
was saying it wouldn't work under XP can do some testing for you.

I'll look at the new version to see how it performs.

 

[Alastair Smeaton]

bassbag wrote:


As I have not used Win98SE for 3 years my recollection of this old venerable
operating system may be fuzzy but I believe that you have to boot to that
wonderfull thing called MS-DOS and run the run.bat. There is no concept of
RunOnce in Win98SE as it only became available in WinME and the WinNT/2K/XP
varients.

Click on the icon that looks like a DOS prompt after you do a Find.
Or Tools >> Generate file. Works for me but the .bat file needs some work
for WinXP but that will be fixed.

I use WinPatrol and it pops up a warning that the RunOnce key wants to be
modified so it is working in WinXP Home.

BTW, it is one of the fastest file searchers I have seen. Kudos to Stephen.

I installed latest build on my xp pro machine - shortcut on start menu
led to nowhere, browsing the directory showed only executable as
run.bat, which ran for a millisecond then disappeared.

I thought I would be able to view index.dat - seems like this
installation was corrupted ?

 

[YK]

I installed latest build on my xp pro machine - shortcut on start menu
led to nowhere, browsing the directory showed only executable as
run.bat, which ran for a millisecond then disappeared.

I thought I would be able to view index.dat - seems like this
installation was corrupted ?

Yes it was. What did you download and run? What directory? What is the
contents of run.bat? What is the contents of the Start menu item?

 

[rir3760]

bassbag wrote:


As I have not used Win98SE for 3 years my recollection of this old
venerable operating system may be fuzzy but I believe that you
have to boot to that wonderfull thing called MS-DOS and run the
run.bat. There is no concept of RunOnce in Win98SE as it only
became available in WinME and the WinNT/2K/XP varients.

RunOnce is supported in Win9x, this is just a fragment from MSDN:

<Quote>
Run and RunOnce Registry Keys

Run and RunOnce registry keys cause programs to run each time that a
user logs on. The data value for a key is a command line. Register
programs to run by adding entries of the form description-
string=commandline. You can write multiple entries under a key. If
more than one program is registered under any particular key, the
order in which those programs run is indeterminate.

Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
family registry includes the following four keys:

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Windows 95/98/ME registry includes the following seven keys:

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Setup

By default, the value of a RunOnce key is deleted before the command
line is run. You can prefix a RunOnce value name with an exclamation
point (!) to defer deletion of the value until after the command
runs. Without the exclamation point prefix, if the RunOnce operation
fails the associated program will not be asked to run the next time
you start the computer.

By default, these keys are ignored when the computer is started in
Safe Mode. Starting with Windows NT 4.0 SP3, the value name of
RunOnce keys can be prefixed with an asterisk (*) to force the
program to run even in Safe mode.
</Quote>

More information:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/setupapi/setup/run_and_runonce_registry_keys.asp>

Regards

 

[Steven]

Steven,

Sorry, I haven't been running your program. I was just chipping in
with some information on the NT/2K/XP world, since no one seemed to be
giving you any information beyond "deltree won't work". Perhaps YK who
was saying it wouldn't work under XP can do some testing for you.

Terry

No problem at all Terry ;o)

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Steven]

Thanks im using w98se , im using the generator to generate the batch file
, but then what?.I dont see anything to save it to the registry key.If i
just exit after viewing the bat file nothing hapens.I have regprot which
shows any reg entries (startman too) ,and nothing seems to be writing to
the registry.Am i doing something wrong?
tia
me

bassbag, if your running v3.2 then you won't be notified that the
registry key has been added (v3.2.1 lets you know it has been added,
and which key it has been added to).

I am contemplating converting it so you actually have the option of
whether or not to add it to the registry. If I can keep the
matchsticks on my eye's for a little longer, I'll modify it this
morning (it's now 02:18am).

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Steven]

bassbag wrote:


As I have not used Win98SE for 3 years my recollection of this old venerable
operating system may be fuzzy but I believe that you have to boot to that
wonderfull thing called MS-DOS and run the run.bat. There is no concept of
RunOnce in Win98SE as it only became available in WinME and the WinNT/2K/XP
varients.

Click on the icon that looks like a DOS prompt after you do a Find.
Or Tools >> Generate file. Works for me but the .bat file needs some work
for WinXP but that will be fixed.

I use WinPatrol and it pops up a warning that the RunOnce key wants to be
modified so it is working in WinXP Home.

BTW, it is one of the fastest file searchers I have seen. Kudos to Stephen.

YK, it is no longer necessary to boot to DOS to run the batch file as
it is now automated via the registry's RunOnce key.

The RunOnce key was actually added when Win95 was released way back
when and is indeed present in 98SE.

Unless you are running an NT based system, or are using a third party
registry "watcher", you will not be notified that a program is trying
to add a key to the registry.

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Steven]

I installed latest build on my xp pro machine - shortcut on start menu
led to nowhere, browsing the directory showed only executable as
run.bat, which ran for a millisecond then disappeared.

I thought I would be able to view index.dat - seems like this
installation was corrupted ?

Alastair,
There was a problem with the v3.2 installation routine when using the
Basic Setup (.exe). This has been resolved in v3.2.1 (released early
yesterday). If you continue to have problems with the setup, let me
know which one you are trying to install from (i.e. Full Install
(.exe)) and I will take a look at it.

If you are sure you have the VB6 Runtime file's installed, you can
download the .zip update file (contains the .exe only), then create a
file called "results.ini" in the program folder (the folder you
extract the .zip to) and all should be well.

Full Install (.zip) http://www.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/idsuite.zip
(2.42MB)

Update: http://www.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/idsuite_upd.zip (38kb)

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Alastair Smeaton]

Alastair,
There was a problem with the v3.2 installation routine when using the
Basic Setup (.exe). This has been resolved in v3.2.1 (released early
yesterday). If you continue to have problems with the setup, let me
know which one you are trying to install from (i.e. Full Install
(.exe)) and I will take a look at it.

If you are sure you have the VB6 Runtime file's installed, you can
download the .zip update file (contains the .exe only), then create a
file called "results.ini" in the program folder (the folder you
extract the .zip to) and all should be well.

I'm sure it was that version I downloaded - however, just downloaded
again, and it works fine

Thanks for your help

 

[Steven]

I'm sure it was that version I downloaded - however, just downloaded
again, and it works fine

Thanks for your help

Alastair,
Glad to hear it's working ;o)

You may want to shoot me though. I was given some
reccomendations/suggestions by YK and have updated Index.dat Suite to
v2.3.2. Updates include;

..: Generated file now shows in Notepad instead of in the application
..: XP batch file generation routine re-written
..: Input dialog removed and replace with easier to use dialog
..: OS prompt removed (integrated into new dialog above)

The new version is currently available as an update (.zip) only, until
the problems have been verified as solved.

If anyone comes accross any other problems, please let me know so I
can work on solving them before releasing another full installation
(becoming rather a habit recently).

http://www.it-mate.co.uk/support/idsuite_download.asp

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[bassbag]

bassbag, if your running v3.2 then you won't be notified that the
registry key has been added (v3.2.1 lets you know it has been added,
and which key it has been added to).

I am contemplating converting it so you actually have the option of
whether or not to add it to the registry. If I can keep the
matchsticks on my eye's for a little longer, I'll modify it this
morning (it's now 02:18am).

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Just downloaded latest version and it works perfectly now.Thanks a lot
for great prog
me

 

[YK]

YK, it is no longer necessary to boot to DOS to run the batch file as
it is now automated via the registry's RunOnce key.

The RunOnce key was actually added when Win95 was released way back
when and is indeed present in 98SE.

Gee I learn something new every day. I thought I remember reading that
RunOnce type keys were not introduced until WinME timeframe.
Thanks all for correcting me.

 

[Steven]

Just downloaded latest version and it works perfectly now.Thanks a lot
for great prog
me

bassbag, no problem at all ;o)

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Steven]

<snip>
Gee I learn something new every day. I thought I remember reading that
RunOnce type keys were not introduced until WinME timeframe.
Thanks all for correcting me.

You welcome ;o)

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!