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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