First of all, let me explain you something. History is not a good place to
save and revisit the URLs. Therefore you should have a good backup of your
data. You should save all of your URLs to Favorites and later you can easily
take backup of Favorite folder through IE's File Menu - Import and Export
option.
The following is a program which will show you the History stored in your
Index.dat file. I hope it will show all your previously visited links.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html
Once you have the list, Select All the URLs and click the "Create Links to
the Selected URLs". This will save all the links to the Selected Favorite
folder.
If everything goes fine and you have all the lost URLs in your Favorite
Folder then first take a backup of your Favorite folder by clicking File -
Import and Export - then click Export folder and then save them to a Folder
on another drive. You will then have a file with Bookmark name.
Create a New User Account and then import that file in it. Then you will
have all the URLs back in your Favorite folder. This new setting will also
have a working History folder and hope that link problem will also be solved.
Later, you can copy everything from your previous setting to new one like
your Documents and Folders etc.
The last program I suggested you was also good but I didn't realize that it
can not recreate the links. Just shows the missing one and you need to
manually recreate them. As you said, it is not letting you browse the Temp
Internet Folder then you can type the address yourself as it is not showing
the TIF in browse window. Sorry to say that but I had use this software just
to remember one of my lost URL and I hadn't try it much.
I extremely feel sorry for the inconvenience caused by us.
Hope this help, let us know!
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Ok I downloaded this program and opened it and there are several icons such
as (address bar)(cookies)(index.dat), etc. Under the icon (open/save), I
can't go to a specific location...only the ones available in the list. I
tried (index.dat) awhich brings up a pop-up box with this address bar *
C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\index.dat* I click OK, and it lists what appears to be
every link I've clicked on for several months. But no change has taken place
with my history folder. When I try to go to this actual location, I get as
far as ...C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local Settings\ ...and in the
*local settings folder* there is no folder for Temp Internet Files... just a
Temp folder and Application Data folder. I tried cahnging the settings of
Local Settings to hidden and read only but the folder Temporary Internet
Files does not appear! So for some reason this folder is hidden from view
and this may be the problem because I can't physically access this folder.
Am I don't something wrong or can you help me out further from this step?
Thanks.
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I think that matter is going wrose. First try this utility to recover your
history. note down all the Index.dat file's path in your Documents and
Settings folder and open them in this software.
http://www.download-by.net/system-utilities/other/26,super-winspy.html
Hope this recover your history. Let us know!
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ok...I tried this but now the entire history window is blank...whereas before
I had at least folders going back 26 weeks and the same problem still
persists! I think I may have accidentally deleted some vital file while
clearing out the mem cache in the temp file. Is there anyway to retrieve
files that were already deleted or just ot reinstall or restore the histly
folder?
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Why don't you try System Restore to an earlier date? Click Start - All
Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore.
Let us know!
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Yes, the colors are different. It don't believe it has anything to do with
the "basic settings." I need to know how to get the history folder to come
back because I rebooted and after I deleted, it didn't come back. No new
pages are showing up in the history window, but everything prior to Monday,
when my pc frist started messing up, remains the same.
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Have you checked the Color settings under Internet Options? Open IE and click
Tools - Internet Options - Color button. Under "Links" there are 2 colors you
can set for Visited and Unvisited. Check if both are same. Change them
accordingly.
Hope this help, let us know!
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Thanks for responding. I deleted the history folder and restarted in safe
mode... and then I restarted again, but the history folder didn't regenerate
itself...and the Hyperlink problem is still the same. Is there anything else
I should be doing?
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:44:00 -0800, Sarlex wrote in message
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I need serious help with a problem I'm just now experiencing. I'm running
IE7 which i've had for a few months, but just yesterday I noticed that when I
click on a hyperlink to a webpage that the color stays the same. I cleared
out the temp int folder, restarted, checked my settings....but I don't know
what the problem is or how to correct it. The older webpages that I've been
to still show that I visited them but just when I click on a new link it
doesn't change. This is particularly annoying when I visit a forum and now I
can't see what posts i've read. In addition to that, I've noticed that in
my history folder, the webpages are no longer being stored.
All this seems to indicate that your History folder has become corrupt.
Delete the History folder. A new one will be created on restart.
Login as another user with administrator privileges, or from the machine's
default administrator account (startup in safe mode.) Make sure that you
can see hidden and system files (Folder Options> View) then delete the
affected History folder from Windows Explorer. It will be at [C:\Documents
and Settings\yourusername\Local Settings\History] Restart the computer.
315222 - A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=315222
