Clearing History - Bugged?

[harmd]

I've read all the various threads on clearing history, and can't seem to find the right answer.

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional Edition and have a problem similar to that listed in thread608-173105. We have some websites stuck in the history somewhere that don't seem to want to be removed by the normal methods.

Already tried, clear history, delete files under internet options. Tried the clear under the taskbar tab (Advanced tab in Win2000). I've looked for the typedURLS in the registry and the entries are blank (i.e. I removed them already) two or three websites consistantly show up in the address bar if autocomplete is on or if you use the History search function.

In the above mentioned post thread608-173105, it states that rebooting in dos mode and performing the deltree operations may have worked... is there an equivilant in Win2000 I can do? There is not a reboot in Dos mode option to perform those tasks.

Any advice? I hope so... thanks in advance

Harmd

 

[PAndersen]

Have you searched the registry not only for TypedUrls
but also for the urls themselves ?

 

[joegz]

You could try booting up your W2K machine in "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" which should be the equivelant. When you start up machine hit F8 when prompted during the beginning of the boot process. joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[harmd]

I have indeed searched for the complete URLs in the registry in addition to parts of the URLs to no avail. I believe they are stored somewhere encrypted, I recall in the MS help or at one of MS KBE websites regarding history, stating that they were stored encrypted.

I also have started in Safe Mode with command prompt, however, the smartdrv and deltree comands are not functional in that mode (or Win2k at all?). I cannot perform the deltree operations, deltree cookies, deltree history and deltree tempor~1 as suggested in the post Thread608-173105.

I'm not sure what else to do... I cannot even uninstall IE to see if that does the trick because it is so integrated in Win2k.

 

[joegz]

Yeah I should have caught that earlier.

smartdrv and deltree does not work in W2K because it is not real DOS. You could try though renaming the same folders and see if that works. For instance rename cookies directory to oldcookies but you will have to use complete path names.

joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[PAndersen]

Would you try the following :
In Tools / Internet Options / Content / AutoComplete
uncheck Web addresses, Forms and User names.
Click OK for the AutoComplete settings and OK for
Internet Options and exit IE. Restart IE and again go to
Autocomplete. Clear Forms and clear passwords, and OK OK
and exit.
IF IE is started now, maybe the autocomplete forms are
empty even when the forms are checked again.

 

[harmd]

That didn't work either.

I resolved it, but I don't know how to be honest. I went to tucows.com and got history kill 2001 shareware demo and it nuked it for me. So obviously something in the shareware program, likely the index.dat files you can't touch that are always open by windows, did the trick. IE was confused about something.

 

[reghakr]

You could log in under a different user and delete the files that way.

reghakr