I've seen messages from people asking how to delete their browsing & document
histories. I have the opposite problem. Everytime I reboot the computer my
"recent document list" erases itself and when I close IE7, the list of
recently visited url's in the dropdown address bar disappears. All this
started happening about 2 months ago. Until then everything was fine.
Any suggestions?

The "ClearRecentDocsOnExit" may have been enabled. See:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"seagull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:80E0323B-90AD-4AAD-B342-(E-Mail Removed)...
I've seen messages from people asking how to delete their browsing & document
histories. I have the opposite problem. Everytime I reboot the computer my
"recent document list" erases itself and when I close IE7, the list of
recently visited url's in the dropdown address bar disappears. All this
started happening about 2 months ago. Until then everything was fine.
Any suggestions?

I was very hopeful when I saw this answer but when I went to change the
"clearrecentdocs on exit" value, I saw that there was no such thing where you
said it should be. On the weekend I'll check out Tweak UI for Windows XP
(which I don't have).
Thanks anyway.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> The "ClearRecentDocsOnExit" may have been enabled. See:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "seagull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:80E0323B-90AD-4AAD-B342-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've seen messages from people asking how to delete their browsing & document
> histories. I have the opposite problem. Everytime I reboot the computer my
> "recent document list" erases itself and when I close IE7, the list of
> recently visited url's in the dropdown address bar disappears. All this
> started happening about 2 months ago. Until then everything was fine.
> Any suggestions?
>

Another possibility is that a tweaker/cache cleaner program is probably clearing the cache at every startup (Examples.. Zone Alarm has a cache cleaning feature built-in, CCleaner may be running at startup)
--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"seagull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:44699488-77E3-47A3-8496-(E-Mail Removed)...
I was very hopeful when I saw this answer but when I went to change the
"clearrecentdocs on exit" value, I saw that there was no such thing where you
said it should be. On the weekend I'll check out Tweak UI for Windows XP
(which I don't have).
Thanks anyway.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> The "ClearRecentDocsOnExit" may have been enabled. See:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "seagull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:80E0323B-90AD-4AAD-B342-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've seen messages from people asking how to delete their browsing & document
> histories. I have the opposite problem. Everytime I reboot the computer my
> "recent document list" erases itself and when I close IE7, the list of
> recently visited url's in the dropdown address bar disappears. All this
> started happening about 2 months ago. Until then everything was fine.
> Any suggestions?
>