Address bar icon and address bar history wacked?

[Guest]

Win XP Home, sp2, all updates as of 3/13, ie6 ver 6.0.2900.2180. Dial-up.
Several days ago, I noticed that the address bar icon (that is in front of
http) has changed from the blue "e" to the generic bent corner icon you get
when windows asks "which program do you want to use to open this file"? I
have been trying to solve this for 2 days now with no luck. Also at probably
the same time, if I click the dropdown arrow at the end of the address bar,
nothing was there? I manualy entered a couple web addresses, they worked
fine, but now the only history addresses that stay there are the ones I enter
manually? But of course, the history folder has them all.
The only thing I have done lately was uninstall aol, and there were 2
microsoft auto updates. So, thinking good ole aol with their embedded garbage
took out some necessary files that ie6 uses, I put the xp disk in, unchecked
iexplorer, restarted, put xp in again and checked iexplorer, no change. So I
did a system restore to before I uninstalled aol. The good ole "e" was back,
but aol would not run. I dont care about aol, so I uninstalled it again, and
everything seemed fine until today. Back to the bent corner icon? I hate to
use system restore, and do not want aol back on my system. Does anyone know
what the heck happened? And an off the subject question....how do you take a
"screen shot"?

 

[Alan Edwards]

Leaving the icon problem for the moment, perhaps you are under a
misapprehension as to how addresses get into the dropdown arrow?
They only get there if you type them in. (It holds the last 25
TypedUrls) What you see is normal.

You may get other history in AutoComplete as suggestions in the
Address Bar, but they do not appear when you click the dropdown arrow.
Have you tried IE-Tools-Internet Options-Content-AutoComplete?

How to Use the AutoComplete Feature in Internet Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=217148

You take screen shots in many Windows operating systems by using
Ctrl+PrintScreen to copy the screen to the clipboard and then you
paste it in a suitable graphics program. For further detail, see the
Help in your operating system. It is not a function of IE.

....Alan

 

[Guest]

I just found another problem that may be related? I downloaded ms
cleariecache tonight, and it will not install. It says that it was
"interupted" and to restart the installation again? It does this over and
over. I copied that file to my laptop, and it works fine, so it cant be a bad
download. Also, I forgot to mention that my email client (not outlook
express) would not load the pages most the time while ie6 was being weird
before I did a system restore. I have my desktop and laptop setup the same,
and open the same emails on both, go to the same sites on both, etc...and the
laptop has no problems. The only dif in the 2 is no webroot software on the
laptop. Hope this all helps someone to help me?

 

[Viktor Krammer]

Hello,

One work-around of your address bar issues would be to install my
alternative address bar Quero Toolbar and turning the address bar off.

http://www.quero.at/

Regards,

Viktor