Address Bar History Gets Emptied

[keithp]

I have a problem that may be opposite of what some people have posted:
the drop-down list of 15-20 addresses most recently typed into the
address bar periodically disappears. This happens unpredictably at
intervals from a few days to a few weeks. My history, however, remains
intact. I run Zone Alarm, AVG 7, and now MS Anti-Spyware, all of which
detect nothing. Nor has this PC ever evidenced any sort of virus,
spyware or trojan-like behavior. Something's going on and I want it to
stop.
IE 6.0.2800.1106, Windows 2000 Pro. Any help gratefully accepted.

 

[Gary Smith]

These entries are stroed in the registry in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs. Are you
sure that you're not running any sort of cleanup program or using a
function that would clear out this key? In Windows 2000, going to the
Advanced tab of the Task Bar and Start Menu Properties dialog and clicking
the Clear button will emtry this key, along with several other things.
The same function exists in WinXP, but you get to it differently.

 

[kp]

These entries are stroed in the registry in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs. Are you
sure that you're not running any sort of cleanup program or using a
function that would clear out this key? In Windows 2000, going to the
Advanced tab of the Task Bar and Start Menu Properties dialog and clicking
the Clear button will emtry this key, along with several other things.
The same function exists in WinXP, but you get to it differently.

Thanks for the response. I'm not aware of anything that's running that
would do this. On a couple of occasions I've had IE open but
unattended, heard a "beep", and returned to see the address bar cleaned
out. Something's doing it, just not sure what.

 

[Gary Smith]

Thanks for the response. I'm not aware of anything that's running that
would do this. On a couple of occasions I've had IE open but
unattended, heard a "beep", and returned to see the address bar cleaned
out. Something's doing it, just not sure what.

Perhaps a registry monitor such as Regmon from Sysinternals would provide
a clue to what was making the change.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem but on a XP box. The addresses most recently
typed into the address bar disappears when i reboot my PC.