index.dat cleared when clearing TIF?

[Guest]

I've read a lot of articles about how index.dat stores information of
previous internet activity, and that index.dat is not cleared when the TIF
folder is cleared. Is this still true? When I clear the TIF folder in the
internet options the index.dat file seems to have been overwritten, even
though the size is still the same. I've used a hex editor to look at the
index.dat file and all the URL, REDR and LEAK records are gone.

Is this something that have been fixed in IE 6 or in a previous version? Or
is this something that came with XP sp2?

I have Windows XP home editioin sp2 and Internet Explorer 6.

Thanks

 

[Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP]]

I've read a lot of articles about how index.dat stores information of
previous internet activity, and that index.dat is not cleared when the TIF
folder is cleared. Is this still true?

[...]

See:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers4.htm#history
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers_8.htm#deltree
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818018#19

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers3.htm#Cache
"Description of the Internet Explorer CACHE".

Jeff Davis, Software Design Engineer di IE Team:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2004/11/18/266027.aspx
"Index.dat: Part I - What is index.dat?".
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2004/11/18/266045.aspx
"Index.dat: Part II - What are they used for?"
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2004/11/19/266977.aspx
"Index.dat Part III - How do I delete index.dat?"

Cheers,