Dear Barry,
I believe Explorer's History file contains particulars of visited links.
This file is probably only written to when the browser is closed (until
then any new visits are as David says held in RAM). A crash would mean the
loss of any visited-but-unwritten-to-History-file links. Barry, if you have
frequent crashes then periodically existing and reloading the browser
should help keep your History file up-to-date. Other than closing the
browser I don't know any other way to force Explorer to write to the
History file.
The rebuilding-from-scratch of visited links would be only if the number of
days of History to be kept by IE is set to zero (many users prefer this,
saves disk space as the History file can be extremely voluminous).
Of course, another question is why your browser or PC crashes [or "hangs"
requiring reboot] frequently!
Cheers -
= Cheeta Gauba / [log in to unmask]
At 10:14 PM 1/21/2006 -0500, Barry Marx wrote:
>If I understand what you're saying, then the coloring of the links would not
>carry over past one reboot to the next. That doesn't seem to be the case.
>It is only lost if there is a system crash (or occasionally it seems to have
>happened if IE crashes). It also doesn't seem to be just a Yahoo issue,
>for example, when I repeat a Google search that was done before the crash,
>the link coloring is now lost for pages previously viewed.
>
>Thanks,
>Barry
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Visited web sites info?
>
>
> > I believe this colouring of links is based on checking the link target
> > against a list in RAM in the current running instance of the browser.
>It's
> > not written to disk anywhere, so when the browser is shut down or the
> > computer rebooted, it's gone. The next time the browser runs, it starts
> > building a new list from scratch.
> >
> > David Gillett
> >
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