Unable to clear history

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steve

Any suggestions for me? When clicking "Clear History",
my history folder remains full of sites visited.

I have closed all browsers and tried clearing and
rebooting but the file is still full.

HELP!!
 
History is at C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local
Settings\History. Dont know if there's any risk in
deleting them there.

HTH - Larry

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:49:24 -0700, "steve"

|Any suggestions for me? When clicking "Clear History",
|my history folder remains full of sites visited.
|
|I have closed all browsers and tried clearing and
|rebooting but the file is still full.
|
|HELP!!


Any advice given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS. Personal attacks, nitpicking & criticism
of anything but content will NOT be responded to. Those
posters should spend their time taking the test @
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocdtrt1.htm
 
I had the same problem erasing History in IE for a long
time and none of the usual suggestions helped, including
deleting the folder in DOS, accessing Internet Options
through Control Panel, purging all spyware, and crippling
any protective programs that were running.

However, I discovered that I had a separate "Internet
Options" screen available within my AOL browser that did
indeed let me clear the History cache. Apparently the
software from AOL (and maybe other ISP software as well)
can keep a "handle" on the History folder preventing other
processes from deleting its contents. This appears to be
true regardless of which browser (IE or AOL's) originally
went to the sites in the cache.

The path for deleting the history cache and other web
matters from within AOL (6.0 for example) is as follows:
Settings > Preferences > Internet Properties
From there, the screens should look somewhat familiar and
the procedure will be obvious.

Kevin
 
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