After 2 Crashes: No IE6 History on restart

[Rudy]

I D/L a free shareware CD ripping program from download.com and tried to
rip a CD to my computer. That one didn't work so I went thru Add/Remove to
get rid of that one and D/L another and tried again. It seemed to be
working but then I got a serious CRASH with the blue screen of death (sorry,
I didnt write down what the explanation was..."if this is the first time you
ve seen this screen..blah blah) After a restart, it took a LONG time to
stop grinding away and seemed OK, I proceeded and got another big time
crash and had to power down to get out of the blue screen. Both times I got
a warning Window about a serious crash and it wanted to send the dtails to
Microsoft..."OK"

Anyway, I gave up on the ripping and now the only symptom that anything odd
happend is that in IE6, there is no "History" saved..that is, if I open say
5 websites, they open fine and are there on the drop down menu/address
bar..until I shut down. On restart, the websites are all gone..No History
from earlier (the 5 sites) and no History from Yesterday or before either.
Its big time inconvenient to have to (two finger) type in all my sites every
day.

New: in this session, I visited 6 different websites..I just checked
"History" and they re all gone..without a shut down

Any ideas how to remedy this ?

R

 

[Rudy]

I tried to check with Microsoft "Help" regarding the loss of the History
function. All it says is how to delete the history and makes reference to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs ...url1,
url2, url3 etc

I guess I should add, I did use a program "Registry Optimizer: Win ASO
Registry Optimizer 2.6 " the other day along with my Spybot S&D and
AdAware.

I 've used all three of these in the past and didnt have any problem with
them. AFAIK, The History didnt disappear til the "ripping and Big Time
crashing" yesterday.

 

[Ron Badour]

Check how many days you are retaining history for--if 0, it is not saved.
Try toggling different retention periods and see if that helps. If it
doesn't, you may have a corrupt folder.

 

[Rudy]

"Ron Badour" MVP wrote in message

Check how many days you are retaining history for--if 0, it is not saved.
Try toggling different retention periods and see if that helps. If it
doesn't, you may have a corrupt folder.

It was set at 5..but acted like ZERO. Tried resetting a few times to
different values and restarting to no avail.

Eventually, some of my other ol' faithful programs started to act up as
well. I suspect the "freeware" ripper I D/L was corrupted with some
EVILware (even though I scanned my whole computer with AV, Ad-aware and
SPYBOT and came up 'clean"? ) and to get my other programs back, I ditched
the freeeware and ripped results by doing a SYS RESTORE. All working well
now

thanks
R

 

[Ron Badour]

Thanks for the feedback. You never know what you are going to get when you
download freeware