Closing unused folders in IE6

[David]

How do you STOP IE6 w/sp2 from closing unused folders &
links in your favorites folder. I have went under
tools/internet options/advanced and unchecked the "close
unused folders in history and favorites" box and restarted
has been over 2 weeks but IE still closes (hides) folders
and links, but they don't even have to be unused, I can
just have went to a site back out go back to the favorites
folder and where this links was is hid! HELP!

Also all of a sudden today IE stopped greying out links
you have clicked on a site so you know where you have
been. Need help with that too.

Thanks,

David

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Deleting the History folder should solve the "visited links" problem. Follow
the appropriate (for your OS) instructions at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

Next in Internet Options> Advanced> Browsing, uncheck "Enable personalized
Favorites menu."

Hope this helps,
Don

 

[David]

Unchecking the "Enable Personalized Favorites Menu"
cleared that up I think, but the other didn't help the
visited links problem though.

Thanks, for your input and help.

David

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Check your settings in Internet Options> General> Colors. Do you have
different colors for visited and unvisited?

Did deleting the History folder appear to actually delete the folder? If
using XP, did you delete the proper History folder?

Don

 

[David]

I went back and redeleted everything again and set the
days to keep pages in history from 99 to 14. Now it seems
to be working again.

David