History - "My Computer"

[Ron B.]

Why does IE6 show "My Computer" as part of its History listing? These
are files accessed outside of IE and IMHO should not be included in
the IE history. Worse yet, when I try to delete "My Computer" from the
history, it appears to delete it but upon exiting and re-entering IE,
I find that ALL items have been deleted from that folder. Deleting "My
Computer" in the file manager does the same thing. I do not recall
this behavior in earlier versions of IE.

Any suggestions on stopping the "My Computer" listing?

Ron

 

[anonymous]

Hi Ron
IE (internet explorer) is the browser for internet
surfing AND moving around on YOUR (My)computer. If you
visit site in California it will show up in your history.
If you change to directory on drive a: (floppy disk) it
will show up in your history. This way you do not need
two different browsers ...one for outside world and one
for computer stuff.

 

[Jack Walsh]

Yeah, but what if you do not want every activity on your computer recorded
and then available for anyone to see, unless you continually delete the
history? Is there no way at all just to stop IE6 from recording everything
I do on my computer?? This is the sort of "improvement" offered by
Microsoft that takes control of the computer away from the user and decides
for the user what is best. I do not want IE6 to record what is done on the
computer, nor do I want to have to delete the history constantly. Isn't
there some way to do this? Sometimes I think that whenever Microsoft
"improves" some product, it always has some major disadvantage to the user.
I'm with Ron on this one.

Jack

 

[Ron B.]

The bigger problem is that you can't even delete the "My Computer"
history without deleting all history for that period (even in Explorer
file manager)!! I also respectfully disagree that the browser is the
place to record all history (even though it doesn't actually do that).
History should be recorded by the application not the operating
system. To me IE is the internet browser and internet history only
should be stored and displayed by IE. Viewing a file in Word is not an
internet activity.

You would think that there would be a switch in the registry to turn
this off.

Ron