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not retaining address history

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by gghartman, 2005/01/18.

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  1. 2005/01/18
    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    all of a sudden internet explorer 6 on xp pro sp2 is not retaining my address bars history. nothing has changed on system no spyware, no virus's but all of a sudden when i click the drop down bar there are no sites listed for previous visits.

    any idea ???
     
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    Under Tols > Options check how many days is set to keep pages in History - if set at 0 your drop down list will be empty.

    BTW - Only typed URL's are retained here, not those connected to by clicking a link. These are retained through Autocomplete - Tools > Internet Options > Content > Autocomplete.
     
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    PeteC

    I know all that. Problem just started yesterday after a download from microsoft. I went back a couple days with the restore function and all is okay. Am going to attempt to do the download again and see what happens.

    Thanks
     
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    OK - keep us posted.
     
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    thanks petec. strange hadnt heard about the latest updates from m.s. having a problem or doing this to ones address function. was a little weird how the restore brought my address bar right back nothing missing.
     
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    Be grateful that System Restore worked for you :) Many folk on the Board have experienced problems in this area.

    I've not seen any other posts relating to side effects from the latest IE/OE patches - maybe time will tell!

    Anyway glad to hear that you are back to square 1.
     
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    petec

    actually when i've had to use on clients machine i have gotten pretty lucky. most times its been a life saver for the client. times i've had problems is when clients machines were infected by spywares. amazing little things these spyware programs. all machine i configure get spybot, ad-ware, spywareblaster and yahoo popup stopper with its anti-spy function. for free-bies they are great and leave no garbage from what ive seen.
     
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