[SauronOfMordor]

I dislike the idea of downloading some random shareware and letting it loose on my disk. And it's unnecessary. To find index.dat, from IE just look in Internet Options->General->Temporary Internat Files->Settings, and observe where the folder for your temporary internet files are. There will be a subfolder called Content.IEsomething. Index.dat will be in that folder

[1stFreedom]

Trust me, this isn't enough. There are several copies of Index.dat.

I've deleted all my temp folders at home, cleaned history,etc, and I found an Index.dat (8mb) that was stored elsewhere.