Can anyone suggest a help site to solve the problem I've mentioned on an earlier post re History items in IE6.
Briefly any file I open seems to appear in the History (sites visted) when I go online.
I didn't think that this appertained to all files on my h/d, be they txt, doc, jpg, inf etc etc.
I am aware that I can clear such visits aftr 1 day but why do they appear??
E

>Can anyone suggest a help site to solve the problem I've
>mentioned on an earlier post re History items in IE6.
>Briefly any file I open seems to appear in the History (sites
>visted) when I go online.
>I didn't think that this appertained to all files on my h/d,
>be they txt, doc, jpg, inf etc etc.
>but why do
>they appear??
>E

When you posted this problem originally I made a seemingly exhaustive Google Advanced search and a Microsoft Knowledgebase search. As far as I know, you're the first and only person to have this problem. LOL

I think the best solution you're going to be able to achieve, short of a full OS re-installation, is a work-around that enables you to clear all histories before, or when, going online.

There are various free programs that will do this.

Regarding your statement "I am aware that I can clear such visits after 1 day", I don't understand why you have to wait a day. You can click "Clear History" in "Internet Options" any time or as often as you wish.


Jim.

Thanks for all your efforts, Jim, I appreciate your help.
If I ever get to the bottom of it I'll post and let you know (but it rankles the not knowing why!)
btw sometimes, on my infernal xp pro "Clear History" doesn't seem to work - no big deal, and I have seen other posts with similar problem.
Cheers
E

Take heart. I too have seemingly unexplainable occurrences in XP that no one else seems to have; though since going to XP from Win98, not many. Sometimes a combination or hardware, software and personal (computing) habits can produce strange results.

After research and time, most peccadilloes can be vanquished; the remaining 2 or 3, I just live with. Life is too short and there are too many other interesting things to work on and think about.

Certain files will appear in the drop-down list if you use AutoComplete. That includes files on your Desktop, anything in your "My Computer" directory, files in your Favorites, files in the left margin Explorer bar, etc. You can't prevent that -- that is how AutoComplete works. You can, I believe, turn off AutoComplete in total.

Check your favorites. If you have a great deal of favorites, they show up in the IE history. The only way I've found to disable that is to uncheck Web Addresses under Auto-Complete.

Tiny little utility here. Interesting what it can turn up.


IEHistoryView v1.00
<http://riedersoft.ath.cx:85/~users/nirsoft/utils/iehv.html>

Each time that you type a URL in the address bar or click on a link in Internet Explorer browser, the URL address is automatically added to the history index file. When you type a sequence of characters in the address bar, Internet Explorer automatically suggests you all URLs that begins with characters sequence that you typed (unless AutoComplete feature for Web addresses is turned off). However, Internet Explorer doesn't allow you to view and edit the entire URL list that it stores inside the history file.

This utility reads all information from the history file on your computer, and displays the list of all URLs that you have visited in the last few days. It also allows you to select one or more URL addresses, and then remove them from the history file or save them into text, HTML or XML file. In addition, you are allowed to view the visited URL list of other user profiles on your computer, and even access the visited URL list on a remote computer, as long as you have permission to access the history folder.

Thanx for your interest 'therube',
I'm throwing in the towel!
As I've said, it's not only the visited internet sites that are showing in the View History but every file that I open to read or edit when not online.
It's very similar to opening docs in Word 'cept this happen in IE6!!!
Weird!!
E

My history shows the files and links I have visited. They show up in my Physical Therapists machine also. Every machine I've looked at. I don't think there is a way to stop this. Unless you disable the history or make it 0 days. I don't know how to disable it. I think it comes in handy once in awhile.

I just looked back at the original thread and I see you didn't reply to my post #10. Take a look at it and, if it doesn't apply, it can be eliminated as we search for a cause.


Jim.

Jim,
Humble apologies for not replying to your suggestion. I did look, but being in the late autumn of life, I dread playing with the Registry!. I did read, however, and found that the link concerned the index.dat file. Isn't that to do with sites visited whilst on line? I feel that somewhere in the system there is a solution as to why all my file openings appear in IE6.
I'm not that concerned about the privacy angle - it's just that I've never seen this particular problem occuring in earlier versions of Windows.
Short of deleting (?) ie6 and reinstalling (what me??) I think that I shall just have the occasional tinker and see what happens.
I do appreciate your interest.
Regards
E

Sorry, I may have confused you. What I want you to check has nothing to do with the registry. When you have opened a variety of documents, forms, websites, etc., click on History in IE to see if among the items you see there are any items listed with extensions ".doc", "txt", etc. If not, do you see ".htm" or ".html" extensions?

Hmmm... since I don't use XP I had to ask around about this. I appears that XP sticks a "URL" named "My Computer" in the History folder each day. That is bizarre to me because other OS's don't do that. I assume this is to what you are referring??

I was also given this exact response when I asked how to prevent this from happening:

unfortunately this "useful" feature cannot be turned off.

So, I will look further, but it doesn't sound promising...
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OK, there is still some disagreement -- and since I don't have an XP box to experiment on, everything I can give you is second-hand information.

One user says that this can be one IF you have WinXP Pro and the Group Policy Editor. Now, my experience with the Win2K GPE is that is it only a user-interface that assists you in making registry modifications -- and that is it. You don't really need the GPE if you know what registry changes need to be made. (XP might be different, but I would think not.)

The GPE has a setting called, "Do not keep history of recently opened documents" which, when checked, reportedly prevents IE from displaying this list. HOWEVER, another user said that local HTML pages appeared on the list regardless....

But, this should at least keep you Word and Excel documents off the list.
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And, as best I can tell, this might actually describe the registry setting:

Do not keep history of recently opened documents
When this policy is enabled, the system does not save shortcuts to most recently used (MRU) documents in the Start menu.

When this policy is enabled, applications must not keep any MRU lists.

Template: system.adm

Path: Administrative | Start Menu & Taskbar

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Value name: NoRecentDocsHistory

Data type: REG_DWORD

Value data:

0 // Display shortcuts in MRU list

1 // Do not display shortcuts in MRU list

Well, you seemed so interested at first...

Yes, this registry value should do what you want -- except for a few caveats:

1) This only prevents NEW files from being added -- it does not erase prior entries.
2) The My Computer folder will remain in each folder.
3) Any locally viewed .htm, .html, and even "hmtl help" files will STILL appear in the My Computer folder even with this set.

>Well, you seemed so interested at first...

He's a Charter Member - he'll be back - probably off on an extended Thanksgiving holiday.


>3) Any locally viewed .htm, .html, and even "hmtl help" files
>will STILL appear in the My Computer folder even with this
>set.

That's kind of what I was trying to get the answer to - if he is incorrectly saving Word and text documents as *.htm or *.html, then his "documents" will appear in the history list. It is possible in Word to have documents saved this way automatically by using Words' "Tools>Options>Save Word Files As" to set the default save file format.

Jim.

I know he'll be back, I was just be facetious..

The default for WinXP is that .doc files regardless are stuck in the History folder -- it does NOT have to be HTML versions. You can elect to stop XP showing the .doc files -- but (again, as best I can tell at this point) you cannot stop it from showing HTML files.

Great little utility, clears all.
I do think, however, that prevention (if possible) is better than cure!
Many Thanx.
E

The other thread for reference.


items appearing in IE History
<http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=2&topic_id=259165>