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windows 98 inop clear history button

Dec 10, 2003 1:12PM PST

under Tools my clear history button has stopped working--any suggestions

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Re:windows 98 inop clear history button
Dec 10, 2003 8:23PM PST

Options:

1. You can ignore it.
2. You can describe in detail what action you expected it to take (some expect it to clear auto-completes.)
3. You can roll the registry back a few days with SCANREG /RESTORE
4. You can find other ways to clear history
5. You can remove and reinstall IE.

Bob

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Re:Re:windows 98 inop clear history button
Dec 10, 2003 11:11PM PST

One more option is to repair IE through add /remove Happy this can be done bychooing to remove and an option will come up for removal or repair.

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Another way ...
Dec 11, 2003 4:44PM PST

The history is nicely contained in a subfolder in the Windows-folder. If you're not using profiles, it's simply called 'history' I think, otherwise it's in your subfolder of the profiles-subfolder.

Go into Windows Explorer, browse to the right history folder, click in the right pane, use select all (ctrl-a, there might be a menu choose for it), then delete-key to move all the subfolders files (today, yesterday ...) to the recycle bin or (better) shift-delete to remove them completely.

Kees

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Re:Another way ... And Auto-complete?
Dec 11, 2003 9:11PM PST

I hinted that another person had this complaint. Turned out they needed to also clear auto-complete. "It's a history too?" they quipped.

"What are the GPS coordinates for Redmond?" was his next question after we went over auto-complete...

Bob

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Auto-complete,
Dec 11, 2003 10:38PM PST

Auto-complete is in the registry, isn't it? That's a totally different story. So is Temporary Internet Files. And cookies. And for the more cautious among us the index.dat files. Maybe he meant the Recent Document list also.

Anyway, there is lots of shareware willing to delete it all and protect your privacy.

I only meant to elaborate one of your five points, explaining where to find what Microsoft calls 'history' outside of IE. That seemed a useful addition to your answer, which - as more of yours, and for very understandable reasons - tended to be rather short.

Kees