My registry contains several folders called history and domains. These
folders each contain hundreds of urls of visited sites. Using regedit I
deleted all these folders from the registry and my system worked fine. (I had
made a backup first in case). However, when I restarted my system later I
discovered that some of these folders and their contents had reappeared even
though I had not been on the web. These files were there despite using a
range of programs to delete all trace of sites visited. Is there any way of
permanently deleteing these files as they simply bloat the registry and slow
things down. I also do not see the purpose of these files.

Set the IE History "Days to Keep" to 0. Those Registry keys you're
purging are not directly related to visited URLs but more to Cookie
handling and other Security Zone issues.

- and they (Keys) do not Bloat the Registry or impact performance.

"jmckba" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My registry contains several folders called history and domains. These
> folders each contain hundreds of urls of visited sites. Using regedit I
> deleted all these folders from the registry and my system worked fine. (I
> had
> made a backup first in case). However, when I restarted my system later I
> discovered that some of these folders and their contents had reappeared
> even
> though I had not been on the web. These files were there despite using a
> range of programs to delete all trace of sites visited. Is there any way
> of
> permanently deleteing these files as they simply bloat the registry and
> slow
> things down. I also do not see the purpose of these files.