Vista "History" won't open or is corrupted

[Chad Harris]

I have had a problem for a few weeks on a Vista SP2 box that I never had
with Windows before. When I try to open up Vista "History" reached @ ctrl+H
and arranged by days, it stopped opening a few weeks ago. I have looked
long and hard for ways to fix this and I've come up empty.

I've tried SFC /scannow many times. I've tried to use Startup Repair which
in my hands will fix a number of significant componetns of Vista that are
broken when nothing else will to no avail. No system restore point would
fix it when it first happened. Running the bcdedit command line switches
often helps me fix a badly broken or a badly broken no boot vista quickly,
but it won't fix this problem for me.

I'd appreciate any help in fixing what seems to be a corrupted Vista SP2
History. Plenty of people have the public Beta of Vista SP2, and they don't
have problems with history, so I doubt it's native to SP2.

TIA,

CH

 

[kevpan815]

Chad Harris wrote: > I have had a problem for a few weeks on a Vista
SP2 box that I never had > with Windows before. When I try to open up
Vista "History" reached @ ctrl+H > and arranged by days, it stopped
opening a few weeks ago. I have looked > long and hard for ways to fix
this and I've come up empty. > > I've tried SFC /scannow many times.
I've tried to use Startup Repair which > in my hands will fix a number
of significant componetns of Vista that are > broken when nothing else
will to no avail. No system restore point would > fix it when it first
happened. Running the bcdedit command line switches > often helps me
fix a badly broken or a badly broken no boot vista quickly, > but it
won't fix this problem for me. > > I'd appreciate any help in fixing
what seems to be a corrupted Vista SP2 > History. Plenty of people
have the public Beta of Vista SP2, and they don't > have problems with
history, so I doubt it's native to SP2. > > TIA, > > CH

 

[CH]

I'm not trying to fix this on any Win 7 installations. I've been running
Win 7 for months. It's only happening on one of my Vista SP2 boxes that is
my main box and I want to retrieve the history that won't open up for the
past several weeks.

BTW Kevin--that's a question not a solution as to how to fix the History.

CH

 

[Peter Foldes]

Chad

There was also someone with the exact same issue as you. He apparently fixed it with
a syntax change in the Reg. I am trying to dig up the thread with the post in there.
I do not remember exactly where I saw it so I am trying to hunt it down. Will get
back as soon as I find it and will give the link for you

 

[Chad Harris]

Peter--

Thanks a lot. I appreciate any time you spend looking. There have to be
other people who have had this problem. History opens fine up to 13 weeks
ago, and then any of the folders for weeks or days more current than that
and they don't open.

I've tried History in other modes on the menu pulldown (by site, etc.) and
anything listed is not more recent than when it stopped opening 13 weeks
ago.

What I mean explicitly is that if I click on Today or any weeks prior newer
than 13 weeks ago, I get no response. I want to figure out how to get into
them or fix it.

CH