History won't clear

[kevininsa]

I have IE 6.0 on Windows XP. My browswer history will not completely clear. It will wipe most of it out, but for example, when I type "www.d", it fills in http://www.daddysreviews.com/newest.php?who=jamie_london&page=0. I'm not quite sure why that particular escort since the first time I saw his pic was last week when he had a new review.

I've cleared the history, cleared files, cookies, auto-complete content. It's still there...as well as 2 or 3 other odd entries.

* And I really need to be able to clear this History *

 

Help Please!

 

KevinInSA

[Kevin Slater]

Somebody will surely reply with a much better suggestion, but if you're desperate (the wife is coming home tonight), I suppose you could uninstall and reinstall the application. (Or does Windows even let you do that any more? I seem to recall the DOJ demanding that this be possible.) Seems like that should work, at the cost of a lot of inconvenience. Maybe you'd need to install a different browser first, to be sure you have a way to navigate to the IE download page.

 

Kudos, by the way, on clearly defining the problem, your system, and the attempts to fix it.

 

Kevin Slater

[Guest PWIT]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323687

 

I believe the above link will help. Sounds like it may be describing your problem.

[kevininsa]

Kevin, Thanks for the compliment. Hoping I don't have to reload, that would be a real pain. Fortunately, I have some time to work on the issue. I just need it to clear before my niece visits in a couple of weeks.

 

KevinInSA

[kevininsa]

Thanks PWIT, I don't know how you found that... Any time I visit the MS help pages I seldom find anything of relevence. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

 

KevinInSA

[Guest PWIT]

>Thanks PWIT, I don't know how you found that... Any time I

>visit the MS help pages I seldom find anything of relevance.

>Unfortunately, it didn't work.

 

Sorry it did not help, there is one more option that I was hesitant to post. Suggest you only try this if you are comfortable editing the registry. The uninstall, reinstall suggestion that Kevin mentioned may accomplish the same thing - that is if the uninstall was scripted correctly to clear up the registry. I would try that first before editing the registry if you have never done that before.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157729

 

And the secret to the MS site - don't use their site search feature. Use Google instead. To find more, just use 'clearing history in IE' as search terms on Google.

[kevininsa]

I'll have to think about the registry. I have done it a couple of times, but it's been quite a while. Thanks!

 

Also thanks for the Google hint for the MS site. I've never thought their own search function was worth beans!

 

KevinInSA

[+ deej]

when you type "www.d" and IE provides a popup showing Daddy's Reviews, scroll to the entry you want to be rid of and press DEL. ;-)

[kevininsa]

Unfortunately, no, it didn't work. Tried 4 times.

 

>when you type "www.d" and IE provides a popup showing Daddy's

>Reviews, scroll to the entry you want to be rid of and press

>DEL. ;-)

[+ deej]

>Unfortunately, no, it didn't work. Tried 4 times.

>

>>when you type "www.d" and IE provides a popup showing

>Daddy's

>>Reviews, scroll to the entry you want to be rid of and press

>>DEL. ;-)

>

 

Then you have SOMETHING running that's interfering with normal operations.

 

It could be your virus protection, spyware protection, or it could be a virus or spyware.

 

Deleting an item from the IE dropdown should permanently delete it from that dropdown. You may have to delete EACH of them, but it should permanently go.

[Kevin Slater]

Could you just create a user account just for her and not let her share your instance of IE?

 

Kevin Slater

[kevininsa]

ha ha ha... well, now that truly had not occurred to me. Yes, I could. However, if I have something wrong with my PC, I would like to figure it out and get it corrected too. But thanks for the thought... I may do that even if I do get it fixed.

 

KevinInSA

 

>Could you just create a user account just for her and not let

>her share your instance of IE?

>

>Kevin Slater

[kevininsa]

Ok, then I'll work from this assumption and see what I can figure out. Thanks for the help... to both of you!!

 

KevinInSA

 

 

>Then you have SOMETHING running that's interfering with normal

>operations.

>

[kevininsa]

Just to update, in case anyone has any other ideas...

 

Virus software says everything is fine.

Dove in to edit the registry and the only thing there was the default. I have no clue where it is finding these addresses.

[Lookin]

I'm a Mac Safari guy, so I can't vouch for this, but here's a guy who says he has a free program to clear the IE history. Something about index.dat files, whatever the hell they are. There are links to other clearing programs as well.

 

http://www.boutell.com/trackless/

 

Good luck!

[kevininsa]

It Worked!!!

 

I had seen this reply shortly after it was posted, but it slipped my mind. I just came across it now and decided to give a try. It worked. Thank you so much!!!

 

KevinInSA

 

 

>I'm a Mac Safari guy, so I can't vouch for this, but here's a

>guy who says he has a free program to clear the IE history.

>Something about index.dat files, whatever the hell they are.

>There are links to other clearing programs as well.

>

>http://www.boutell.com/trackless/

>

>Good luck!

[Lookin]

Excellent! You're very welcome, and I'm glad it did the trick.