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Resolved Deleting IE History and Cookies, etc, Without Admin Privs?

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by CUISTech, 2010/08/18.

  1. 2010/08/18
    CUISTech

    CUISTech Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a user who was told by our vendor to clear all the temporary internet files, history, etc on their browser. Not being an admin, they don't have access to delete their history like that. (This is set through group policy.)

    It's one user, for a one-time event. I shouldn't have to much around with active directory and group policy for this one person to clean them, and then go through and put it all back, right?

    Google and another forum has brought me lots of answers about how to clear the history, but nothing that covers doing it without admin rights.

    Am I on the right trail, about there being a way to do it without meddling in group policy?
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Did you try to solve the original issue to avoid having to clear the history?

    Does right clicking on the IE icon and select Run as Admin help?
     

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    CUISTech

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    The user and the vendor did, and that's when the vendor suggested clearing all cookies, history and temporary file.

    I went to \\ipaddress\c$\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings

    and then manually deleted everything in the \History\ and \Temporary Internet Files\ folders. That might not have cleared the cookies? The problem is still happening.

    "Run as Admin," I'm led to understand will clear the history and cookies and temp files of the admin's profile, not the particular user's profile.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    You could make the user an admin - fix the deal - change the user back.
     
  6. 2010/09/23
    CUISTech

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    I thought I closed this.

    Turns out that this was firewall-based. The one linked image on the page that was not loading, was being loaded from a different domain than the one on the web page. Once we allowed that domain through, we had no problems loading the image.

    We did not need to change privs on the user to delete the history or cookies. Thank you for the help, though.
     

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