erasing history

[Marc70]

How do I completely erase the history in IE6?
Every time I try to do this:
Tools>internet options>delete cookies, files (offline content), clear
history
I then click ok, but if I try the history again, it still shows my offline
history.
And after doing this 2 or 3 times it shows it as gone, but later I try the
history again, and there's the stuff I thought I deleted before.
Thanks for any help.

 

[PA Bear]

Anything listed in Favorites (which by default includes pages saved for
offline viewing) are not deleted when your Clear History, Marc.

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Marc

Try the following and see if it helps:

Deleting History and Typed URLs in Internet Explorer
http://www.wbaudisch.de/DeletingHistory.htm

Your History folder may be corrupted, you can delete it a new one will be
created when you reboot.

To create a new History Folder
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm (XP systems)

To delete the History folder and Index.dat (XP)
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

Log on as Administrator and delete the desired <username> folder and reboot.
(or log on as another user that has Administrator privileges)
Example: "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\HISTORY"

or.....

If it is only the addresses in the dropdown list you have problems with:

Delete all Addresses in Dropdown box

Courtesy of Jim Byrd -

To delete ALL Addresses in the Drop Down list, go here and
download and install Mike Burgess' DelTypedURL.inf at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

See below for Selective Delete

You can also get DelSearchMRU.inf at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/DelSearchMRU.inf

Note: this does not remove entries entered via AutoComplete. To remove
hidden AutoComplete entries in History:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm#AutoComplete

IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure that ALL instances of IE6 are CLOSED before
you do the install of this (these) .inf files. Otherwise the "old" entries
will just be re-written back to the Registry when you close IE.

A nice alternative just for selective or all Address (not Search) history
maintenance is EditURLs, here:
http://www.aandrc.com/editurls/
Here also, you must close ALL instances of IE6 for the deletions to "take".

Recommended

also....if the above fail...

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
or
http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144-10315544.html
History Eraser from
http://smartprotector.com/eraser/free-history-eraser.htm will delete the
History folder in Windows 9x,2K, XP.

Hope this helps

Jan
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[Guest]

How do I completely erase the history in IE6?
Every time I try to do this:
Tools>internet options>delete cookies, files (offline content), clear
history
I then click ok, but if I try the history again, it still shows my offline
history.
And after doing this 2 or 3 times it shows it as gone, but later I try the
history again, and there's the stuff I thought I deleted before.
Thanks for any help.

Try this,it works well.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

 

[Guest]

You can NOT delete the History folder. It is a Windows System folder and
Windows will not let you delete it.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Yes, you CAN delete the History folder. You just have to do it from another
user account with admin. privileges (XP/2K/NT) or via DOS (Win9x/ME).
Information on doing this is provided in the links Jan mentions.