History has nothing in it

[JonathanL]

On a laptop that I just put XP on and a desktop with XP,
when I click the History button in IE, it only shows the
current day with the By Date view and both the By Site
and By Order Visited Today views show nothing. The By
Most Visited view appears to show all the sites I've
visited today. I don't recall experiencing this until
going to XP so I'm not sure if it's related to XP or IE6
since I don't remember if I ran into this or not with IE6
on W2K.

My history is set to be stored for 20 days so that's not
it. Any idea why this history isn't there? It's been
quite useful to me at times in the past so I'm sorry to
lose it.

 

[judy]

depends on day number in tools/internet options/general
window.

 

[Mike Burgess]

JonathanL,
Possibly your History folder is corrupt:
[XP\2K]
Log on as Administrator and delete the desired <username> folder(s).
[example]
"C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\HISTORY"
[more info]
How To: Delete the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

[WinME]
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm#WinME

[Win98]
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm#Win98

Note: McAfee AV with ActiveX controls enabled is known to cause History
problems.
Cannot View Internet Explorer 6 History By Date (XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=819257
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