A tool to view your index.dat files. In case you don't know what these files are, they are files where Windows secretely store information about your browsing habits.

Just download the application to see what they store there. You will be surprised. You can see the history secret files as well. These files keep unbelievable records about every file and URL you open on your machine.

Index.dat VIEWER 2.1...FREEWARE

Index.dat are files hidden on your computer that contain all of the Web sites that you have ever visited. Every URL, and every Web page is listed there. Not only that but all of the email that has been sent or received through Outlook or Outlook Express is also being logged. The file names and locations depend on what version of Internet Explorer you have. If you are running IE version 4.0 or above, the file name is "index.dat". Microsoft has not supplied an adequate explanation as to what these files are for or why they have been hidden so well.

According to Microsoft, these files are used to cache visited Web sites to help speed up the loading of Web pages in Internet Explorer. Obviously this cannot be the case because when you clear the Temporary Internet Files the "index.dat" files remain behind and continue to grow. If you delete or clear the Temporary Internet Files, there is absolutely no need to index the URL cache because those files no longer exist.

You can not view the index.dat using a normal editor program because it's in binary format. Index.dat Viewer can view the URLs in these hidden index.dat files