I know what you mean ... I had the same experience.
All I can say is that it is a "glitch" in ie6 and perhaps you should report
it to MSN. So far it has not been a concern to me.
You might want to invest in a utility such as "Window Washer" ...
go to: http://www.webroot.com/washer.htm
and from there you will find info on what it does. I have version 3.3 and it
is great! Takes care of all history "tracks". Use the free plugins to clean
NeoPlanet and Opera etc etc. and automates the cleaning of your Internet
files!
http://computers.lycos.com/downloads/dindex.asp might have some utilities
there that might interest you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Torraca" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:14 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Internet Explorer history not working
> Hello everyone,
> Last month I updated Internet Explorer 5.5 to 6.0. I just noticed that
when
> I try to pull up history, I get the history pane on the left, but here is
no
> history there. In the window is a 'history' folder. Under that is a file,
> desktop.ini. The usual view and search buttons are not there either. I
tried
> deleting the history file in c:\windows. It made another, but still the
same
> problem. I tried the Internet explorer repair tool and it made a new
> instance of the history folder in C:\windows\temp. Browsing either one of
> these folders, I see pretty much the same thing as I see from the history
> side bar: desktop.ini, another history folder inside the first, a folder
> within that history folder named MSHist012002030420020305 and some .dat
> files inside that. Browsing the history folder on my other 2 machines,
(also
> recently updated to IE 6.0), I see regular history 'stuff', subfolders
> named: 3 weeks ago, 2 weeks ago, etc. Its all very readable and you can
see
> the urls. So I'm figuring something on this machine is creating a bad
> history folder because I just see the same junk when I browse as I do from
> the history pane. I reverted back to IE 5.5 and history displays fine. I
> re-installed 6.0 and I'm back to viewing the junk in the history pane. I
am
> of course creating some history and closing and opening IE when checking
> this each time. Thanks for any ideas on how to fix this. -Nick
>
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