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      11-05-2007
How to set registr or PC to allow del index.dat or other files which are
protected?
 
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      11-05-2007
forst <> wrote:

> How to set registr or PC to allow del index.dat or other files which
> are protected?


Try to use a clean up tool, such as Ccleaner, that will do this for you.
In general you should be careful about deleting .dat-files, some of them
are crucial to your system and protected for very good reasons.

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      11-05-2007
I would use CCleaner for this job, www.ccleaner.com. This is the application
i useto delete index.dat files.
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> How to set registr or PC to allow del index.dat or other files which are
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      11-05-2007
I know that i had to be careful about deleting index.dat.
Yes now thare are a lot of programs for deletig such as ccleaner,but it's
possible to set something in windows for allow deleting index.dat?

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> > How to set registr or PC to allow del index.dat or other files which
> > are protected?

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> Try to use a clean up tool, such as Ccleaner, that will do this for you.
> In general you should be careful about deleting .dat-files, some of them
> are crucial to your system and protected for very good reasons.
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      11-05-2007
forst <> wrote:

> I know that i had to be careful about deleting index.dat.
> Yes now thare are a lot of programs for deletig such as ccleaner,but
> it's possible to set something in windows for allow deleting
> index.dat?


Not really. You can take ownership of files use takeown and icacls, and
allow them to be deleted. But in the case of index.dat files it is a
cumbersome task, maybe requiring you to run in Safe mode and so on, and
you might still end up with no success. It is simpler to just use a clean
up tool.

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