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What is the easiest way to retrieve a website that has been visited but has
since been lost?
 
In lostaddress typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:27:02 -0700:
What is the easiest way to retrieve a website that has been visited
but has since been lost?
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Usually through the browser history feature. Or if you know part of the
address to type part of it in and hopefully the autocomplete feature
will list the matches.
 
lostaddress said:
What is the easiest way to retrieve a website that has been visited but
has
since been lost?
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First thing to try is the history feature of your browser. If you visited
the site within the parameters of your "how long to save history" settings,
it should still be there. Next, if you know the name of the site, how about
google?
 
Computer history is too far out and my memory is also shot as to the name of
the site.
 
What is the easiest way to retrieve a website that has been visited but has
since been lost?
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You could look at the index.dat file under your user name.

C:\Documents and Settings\~YourUserName~\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5

There is usually a wealth of data stored in that file. You can open it
in notepad, or wordpad.
 
Complete search of C drive did not find temporary internet files or IE5. I
am looking for good website similar to Hoovers.
 
I didn't use google search to find the site - I had the address and as I said
it has been lost.
 
"Had it" - ? did you actually set a bookmark for the site ? The web
history isn't really persistent data and is subject to being reset when
the History max date is reached. ( Older data rolls off ). History is
also something that many security packages remove as part of their
cleanup procedures.
You be better off setting bookmarks on sites you may revisit and
not depend on the history data.
 
lostaddress said:
I didn't use google search to find the site - I had the address and as I
said
it has been lost.
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Nobody said that you ORIGINALLY found the site using google. Rather, he's
suggesting that you use whatever you remember about the site to find it
again using google.

What do you remember about the site? Anything? What sort of subject matter
was involved?
 
Well, use it *now* to refind the site.

:I didn't use google search to find the site - I had the address and as I
said
: it has been lost.
:
: "Bob I" wrote:
:
: > Try looking it up in a google search? It has to have something on it
: > that you remember.
: >
: > lostaddress wrote:
: >
: > > History only goes back two weeks and my memory goes back less.
: > >
: > > "BillW50" wrote:
: > >
: > >
: > >>In : > >>lostaddress typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:27:02 -0700:
: > >>
: > >>>What is the easiest way to retrieve a website that has been visited
: > >>>but has since been lost?
: > >>
: > >>Usually through the browser history feature. Or if you know part of
the
: > >>address to type part of it in and hopefully the autocomplete feature
: > >>will list the matches.
: > >>
: > >>--
: > >>Bill
: > >>Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
: > >>Windows XP SP2
: > >>
: > >>
: > >>
: >
: >
 
I'll try a different direction - I am looking for a site similar to: Alexa,
Hoovers, Manta, Highbeam, Lead411, Vault, Jigsaw, LinkedIN, Zapdata. Anybody
have any additional?
 
Perhaps you can tell us what problem you are experiencing in using
Windows XP? That is what the group is provided for.
 
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