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Subject: Re: <OT> Need help: browser has stopped remembering which pages I've visited

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:06:27 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.
>


I think I know what happened.  The history.dat file grew too large and/or got
corrupted, so Windows couldn't write to it any more.  I had to basically start
over with a fresh history, which stinks because now I don't know which messages
I've already read here and in dozens of other places I visit regularly. :-(



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