Comments on: clearing windows history?

Question: clearing windows history?

skinnydipp — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:20:29 -0800

After having problems clearing my history (windows 2000) I googled some info and found it to be a common problem, but still can't clear the history with the found tips...

I tried closing all running programs and clearing history through the contol panel, and I downloaded a shareware program (Free Internet Eraser), but the only reliable way to clear the history is to manually delete every single entry, any recommendations?

By: jikel_morten

jikel_morten — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:22:01 -0800

Are you spyware free?

By: autojack

autojack — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:36:59 -0800

What history are you talking about? Browser history? Switch to Firefox, it has a preferences button you can click to wipe out all traces of sites browsed, cookies stored, etc.

By: skinnydipp

skinnydipp — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:45:32 -0800

Yes browser history in explorer, and spyware free.

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:57:13 -0800

Delete your index.dat files. Info here.

I have the problem that no history shows up except for in the most visited view (someday I'll have to post an AskMe about it). It was one of the factors which drove me to Firefox. Deleting the index.dat files (there are more than one) takes care of it. Clear your cache as well. Even if Explorer deletes the history, the index.dat files still contain the old entries, that is until you delete the index.dat files. Windows will automatically give you new clean ones after the deletion.

By: SparkyPine

SparkyPine — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:35:18 -0800

"Crap Cleaner" You'll love that program...and it's free!

Also, for God's sakes, man, quit using IE and get Firefox already.

By: SparkyPine

SparkyPine — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:36:34 -0800

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Guess I should have looked at the "Live Preview" here, forgot to properly link to the site.