In Win98 I used to empty the IE cache from IE, wipe the swap file from dos
and deltree the cookies, history and tempor~1 directories and do a scanreg
/opt to clean URL history and then reboot and overwrite freespace. This
would have totally erased all website details from my hdd - what is the best
way to do same for XP. Cache files seem to be far more numerous, there is
no dos and a 120 Gb hdd is impractical to wipe freespace on. Can I use an
overwriter like Eraser to just wipe c:\documents and settings\~user\cookies,
c:\documents and settings\~user\local settings\history and c:\documents and
settings\~user\local settings\temporary internet files from another user
account before emptying these from IE without IE getting in a mess, and set
XP to wipe swap at shutdown. Will this remove all surfing history or do I
need to overwrite other files. Also what files are stored in the system
restore saves - url history in the registry and any index.dat files? How do
you compact the registry in XP so as to lose URL history after it has been
emptied from IE. This is partly paranoid but security is a bit of a hobby
Many thanks for your time.

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Mike

Mike wrote:
> In Win98 I used to empty the IE cache from IE, wipe the swap file from dos
> and deltree the cookies, history and tempor~1 directories and do a scanreg
> /opt to clean URL history and then reboot and overwrite freespace. This
> would have totally erased all website details from my hdd - what is the best
> way to do same for XP. Cache files seem to be far more numerous, there is
> no dos and a 120 Gb hdd is impractical to wipe freespace on. Can I use an
> overwriter like Eraser to just wipe c:\documents and settings\~user\cookies,
> c:\documents and settings\~user\local settings\history and c:\documents and
> settings\~user\local settings\temporary internet files from another user
> account before emptying these from IE without IE getting in a mess, and set
> XP to wipe swap at shutdown. Will this remove all surfing history or do I
> need to overwrite other files. Also what files are stored in the system
> restore saves - url history in the registry and any index.dat files? How do
> you compact the registry in XP so as to lose URL history after it has been
> emptied from IE. This is partly paranoid but security is a bit of a hobby
> Many thanks for your time.

How many ****ing groups have you posted that into, you pillock? Learn to
****ing cross-post and learn to break up your text becuase it reflects
the contents of your cluttered head.

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Mike wrote:
> In Win98 I used to empty the IE cache from IE, wipe the swap file
> from dos and deltree the cookies, history and tempor~1 directories
> and do a scanreg /opt to clean URL history and then reboot and
> overwrite freespace. This would have totally erased all website
> details from my hdd - what is the best way to do same for XP. Cache
> files seem to be far more numerous, there is no dos and a 120 Gb hdd
> is impractical to wipe freespace on. Can I use an overwriter like
> Eraser to just wipe c:\documents and settings\~user\cookies,
> c:\documents and settings\~user\local settings\history and
> c:\documents and settings\~user\local settings\temporary internet
> files from another user account before emptying these from IE without
> IE getting in a mess, and set XP to wipe swap at shutdown. Will this
> remove all surfing history or do I need to overwrite other files.
> Also what files are stored in the system restore saves - url history
> in the registry and any index.dat files? How do you compact the
> registry in XP so as to lose URL history after it has been emptied
> from IE. This is partly paranoid but security is a bit of a hobby
> Many thanks for your time.

I can't follow that. Repost using sentences and paragraphs.

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