Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:00:07 10/19/01
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On October 19, 2001 at 11:43:09, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >Some suggestions. > >Go to control panel and check out the internet options (the globe with the >checkmark). Check if you have told your browser to keep the history files >directory for a sufficient amount of days. > >Also check the "colours" button, and check "use windows colors". It might be the >links aren't "coloured" in the right way anymore. > >As a last resort: visit some pages. Then check if the folder c:\windows\history >contains URL's you visited. If it does, there's something wrong with the screen >output, if not, the directory might be corrupted. Or maybe that goes for both >instances. > >Restart the computer, go to the dos prompt only (hitting f8 and to the bootup >menu) and type: > >deltree /y c:\windows\history > ><return> > >Now start your PC again and Windows98 will create you a new (hopefully) correct >directory for your URL history. > Thank you! It's definitely that C:\WINDOWS\History is not working right. The "Today" thing is always empty, no matter how many sites I vist. This was NOT a problem yesterday. I did a search of newsgroups and one other person had the same problem. The problem mysteriously went away after a few days. Nobody was able to figure it out. This problem is NOT described in Microsoft's knowledge base. I'm pretty sure I had this problem once before. It mysteriously went away on its own back then (when I was using IE 5.5 or earlier, whereas now I'm using IE 6.0). I've rebooted my system several times to no avail. I'll try renaming the History folder, but I'd hate to lose it entirely. Is there a way to copy its contents back into the new one that will hopefully be created? (You can't do this copy from Windows.) Thanks again!!
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