At 12:00 AM 7/14/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>I would like to restore the history function to the address bar.
>As I am the only one to use this computer, I must have done something to me=
>ss this up. I just don't know what."


Perhaps you have automatic monthly cleanups scheduled.  Whatever, it seems 
that something has emptied your history data, probably the result of some 
"cleanup" activity.  Check your Task Scheduler (Control Panel/Admin 
tools/Services) and disable the service if need be. Or perhaps you have 
some other software set to do cleanups.

If that's the case, it can't be restored without special undelete software, 
even then it's slow and tricky and often not possible if anything else has 
been written to the hard drive.

I've done the same thing myself in a cleanup frenzy, acting before thinking.

The other possibility is that something (perhaps a Windows update) has 
re-set the security settings in your browser to delete history each time 
the browser is closed. Check your security settings in IE7.  Browser 
history is a possible security risk, as it can be read by trojans and the 
info sent to spammers. For example, if you have recently visited carsales 
sites, you could expect to be bombarded by 1000's of spam emails about cars 
should you be infected by a spam trojan.

Don Penlington


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