Index.dat Files

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Vern Kollas

Hey All,

Does anyone know of a way or tool that can be used to view
the contents of the history/index.dat files?? I need a way
to view them from user profiles on a different machine to
verify sites that a particular user has visited.

Thanks in advance for any help!
replies via email are ok.

Vern
 
Vern Kollas said:
Hey All,

Does anyone know of a way or tool that can be used to view
the contents of the history/index.dat files?? I need a way
to view them from user profiles on a different machine to
verify sites that a particular user has visited.

Thanks in advance for any help!
replies via email are ok.

Vern
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http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

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Vern,
You will have to copy the index.dat to a different folder\drive in order to
"view".
You will be prevented from viewing while in "Windows" due to "file in use"
(system file).
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Hi Vern,

While you can open the file index.dat from other user profile, this file
contents will not be in "clear-text". You need to use a third-party utility
to see the URLs and contents of this file.

You may use a third-party software such as History Reader.
http://www.spychecker.com/program/historyreader.html
http://www.winplanet.com/winplanet/reviews/1602/1/

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Hey All,

Does anyone know of a way or tool that can be used to view
the contents of the history/index.dat files?? I need a way
to view them from user profiles on a different machine to
verify sites that a particular user has visited.

Thanks in advance for any help!
replies via email are ok.

Vern
 
If you just want to see a sample of the URLs visited (timestamps
will be binary strings unfortunately) you could use Mike's copy suggestion
and then this:

find /i "Visited:" index.dat
 
Robert,
I find "BinText Viewer" works very well .... strips out the junk ;)
http://www.foundstone.com/knowledge/proddesc/bintext.html
Great for "viewing" dll's, .dat, .ocx, etc. ........
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Thanks for all the help!! I will check out those URLs for
the utilities!!

Have a GREAT day!

Vern
 
Vern Kollas said:
Thanks for all the help!! I will check out those URLs for
the utilities!!

Have a GREAT day!

Vern
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You too, Vern - glad to help.
Post back if you need anything else.

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