XP Home - Deleting all .dat files

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Xylophone

I have XP Home, re which TweakXP.com recommend as follows:

"to preserve your privacy I found a way to delete them (all ./dat files).
it's impossible to do in windows thus you have to reboot your computer then
press F8 or F5 for advanced boot options; then choose "safe mode with
command prompt; log in as administrator and then from there you can delete
them freely without windows preventing it.

just go to the root (c:\) by typing CD\

then type del index.dat /s then enter



and all the files names index dat in your computer will be deleted
permanently."

Is this ok or dangerous? Comments???
 
I wouldn't necessarily believe that statement. I just did a search and found
758 .DAT files using over 640Mb of space and I have no clue as to what they
all do.

Do you have that info about your system? What do all those .DAT files do?
 
I would think that deleting all your .dat files could prove to be real
damaging.
 
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