XP Pro & IE6 not showing history

[phoneblock]

Hi All,

Running XP Pro O/S with IE 6.0, but can't seem to trace Internet History. No record of where you have been surfing thru' the gui, or if you nav to tempory internet files folder.

Any Ideas?

Most people are are happy with this, but have some clients that do use the Internet History.

Cheers

[Damned Angel]

check "days to keep pages in history" value in the internet options menu.

[paraflyer]

I have the same issue with XP/IE6 SP1 at work, multiple users with the same problem.

Changing the "days to keep History" didn't have any effect, though. Switched it from 12, to zero, then experimented with 7,14,21 days, no luck.

In our case, History may not display at all, or you'll see just the entries from the current session...close IE and reopen, and it's a clean slate again.

Hoping someone out there has an answer for this....can't find anything obvious, even went thru Registry settings, checked all XP services, the works.

MS hasn't responded so far...don't really expect them to.

[Low_Level_Owl]

The machines wouldn't be running TweakUI would they?

I ask because TweakUI has an option of clearing out "History".

[paraflyer]

Nope.

We have TweakUI running on older PC's on our nursing units to help keep the drives clean, but the users in this case do not have it installed.

[NooNoo]

What is showing under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs

[paraflyer]

I get a listing for the last dozen or so sites I visited...only way to display them is click the "down arrow" in the Address bar in IE, or if the History window is open I have to use the "by most visted" option to see anything.

If I "view by date", then all I see is what's happened in the current session...looks like it gets purged on exit.

[NooNoo]

OK, so someone loaded a history removal proggie.. which one is gonna be fun finding out!

How big is the history.dat ? You tried reindexing it?

[NooNoo]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer

do you have a controlpanel key under that? - it may contain history settings.

[paraflyer]

Originally posted by NooNoo
OK, so someone loaded a history removal proggie.. which one is gonna be fun finding out!

How big is the history.dat ? You tried reindexing it?

Could very well be that, except for the fact that the workstations in question are "vanilla" XP Pro installs, IE6SP1, OfficeXP, HBOwem terminal emulator, TrackIt Remote, and Citrix.

Even checked for spyware/malware that may be doing it, that search came up empty.

History.dat doesn't even exist!!!! (how's that for a twist!)

[paraflyer]

Originally posted by NooNoo
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer

do you have a controlpanel key under that? - it may contain history settings.

Nope. Only two items \Software\Policies\Microsoft, SystemCertificates and Windows

SystemCertificates has 4 sub-folders: ca, Disallowed, trust, TrustedPublisher.

Windows has one folder: System, with a key of ExcludeProfileDirs

[NooNoo]

my bad, its called index.dat in the history folder....

Interesting snippet I found, in the mskb on older versions, apparently special characters in the user name screws up the history file.

Otherwise did you check that reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte
rnet Explorer\controlpanel\history

If its set to 0 no history can be changed.

[NooNoo]

we keep cross posting... still that should upset the punters on Confus-ed's topic :D

Hmmm all these settings should be there (http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/537/)

[paraflyer]

Originally posted by NooNoo
we keep cross posting... still that should upset the punters on Confus-ed's topic :D

Hmmm all these settings should be there (http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/537/)

OK, I'm trying them out now, I'll let you know how it goes.....in case I didn't say so before, thanx for the assist!

[paraflyer]

Well, no luck with changing the registry settings.

Interesting note, there's not Index.dat in any of the system's History folders, and those folders are all marked read-only in Properties.
And regardless if I change it, the setting is persistent.

Now I've got TWO mysteries on my hands:confused: :confused: :confused:

[destiny4271]

I had this same problem at work. I tracked it down to McAfee Virus Scan. Uninstall it, history works fine. Reinstall it, history doesn't work anymore.

At that time, I never found anything on McAfee's support site about the problem.
There maybe something there now, but I haven't looked. Switched everything over to Norton Anti-Virus.

[paraflyer]

Originally posted by destiny4271
I had this same problem at work. I tracked it down to McAfee Virus Scan. Uninstall it, history works fine. Reinstall it, history doesn't work anymore.

At that time, I never found anything on McAfee's support site about the problem.
There maybe something there now, but I haven't looked. Switched everything over to Norton Anti-Virus.


Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! (doing the Dance of Joy)

Removed McAfee, and it works like a champ!:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

Now all I have to do is convince the hospital to drop McAfee and pick up Norton.:sad:

[paraflyer]

OK, we have yet still another update:

I went to McAfee's site, found a tech bulletin in one of their forums.

In short, they don't know exactly why (yet), but if VirusScan has its Internet Filter enabled, the aforementioned problem results.

Their suggestion is to configure McAfee with Internet Filter disabled; the System Scan will still monitor Java Applets and ActiveX controls, so not all Internet-related functionality is gone.

[paraflyer]

OK, OK...yet still another "just one more" update.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;813489

This link takes you to information regarding an IE cululative patch.

Just for giggles, I applied the patch, rebooted, and reinstalled McAfee....SO FAR the History settings are working.