clearing internet history

[Plato]

LOL! Newbie Coder telling Kelly she has "minimal knowledge" of the
registry! I love it! It's like a 9-year-old telling Albert Einstein
he has "minimal knowledge" of physics!

Back years ago I used to fix PCs in Princeton, NJ. I was lucky enough to
fix a Packard Bell. OMG. On one of the old Albert Einstein desks. I
found it really weird that there was an old Packard Bell I had to fix.
But, the experience I will always remember, as the current owner of the
desk and house used to have Albert over for dinner and talk. Again,
Albert never used a PC, but it was sort of time travel to work on the
same desk he used to use on weekends when he went for dinner at his
buddies house. I feel really lucky at least to sit in the same chair and
work on the same desk that he worked on...

 

[Guest]

ok site shows up when searched for in history i right click go to delete a
window asks me if i really want to delete i push yes site stays put. its no
where in the typed urls in registry i have told you this many times is there
a way to search in regesty like you can do in history? i dont know if this
matters when window comes up asking me if i want to delete e symbol has a red
! in front of it?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Back years ago I used to fix PCs in Princeton, NJ. I was lucky enough to
fix a Packard Bell. OMG. On one of the old Albert Einstein desks. I
found it really weird that there was an old Packard Bell I had to fix.
But, the experience I will always remember, as the current owner of the
desk and house used to have Albert over for dinner and talk. Again,
Albert never used a PC,

Nope, he died many years before they were invented.

but it was sort of time travel to work on the
same desk he used to use on weekends when he went for dinner at his
buddies house. I feel really lucky at least to sit in the same chair and
work on the same desk that he worked on...

It must have been a *wonderful* feeling. I envy you that experience!

 

[Plato]

Nope, he died many years before they were invented.

Yes I know that he died before the Packard Bell was used. It was just a
glory to work on the same desk Albert used to work on. At the time, the
current owner of the house/desk where Albert worked had added a PC to
his tools. Again, it was a glory to work at the same desk that Albert
used when visiting one of his best buddies.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
When you ran CCleaner, did you check the "Delete index.dat files" box? Try
that.

Or download and install IEHistory View from
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html IEHistory View seems to list the
index.dat file, not just the History folder. If the URL is listed, you
should be able to delete it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[JS]

Apparently my condition does not exactly match your problem as when I press
the 'Yes' key to delete the item it does delete it.
I presume you are logged on with an account that has administrative
privileges.

The way to search the registry is to run regedit and then press Ctrl+f (or
from the menu bar click Edit/Find) then enter the web site's URL in the
'Find what' field. Put check marks for 'Keys', 'Values' and 'Data', uncheck
'Match whole string only' box, then click on the 'Find Next' button. If you
find the URL in the registry delete it and then press the F3 key to continue
searching for additional occurrences, repeat as necessary.

JS

 

[Guest]

thank you Don Varnau your IE history view worked im so happy its off my comp
i worried about a virus or something, and thanks for all your suggestions JS
i appreciate the help.

thanks alot ishamay

 

[JS]

You're Welcome

JS

thank you Don Varnau your IE history view worked im so happy its off my
comp
i worried about a virus or something, and thanks for all your suggestions
JS
i appreciate the help.

thanks alot ishamay

 

[Don Varnau]

You're welcome. Glad you got it resolved.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

thank you Don Varnau your IE history view worked im so happy its off my comp
i worried about a virus or something, and thanks for all your suggestions JS
i appreciate the help.

thanks alot ishamay

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