This just HAS to be an XP glitch!!!

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Registered: 07-27-2000
This just HAS to be an XP glitch!!!
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Wed, 11-24-2004 - 4:08am
I know I've written about this a couple of times before, but this just makes NO SENSE!!! For the past couple of weeks, my "history" function has obeyed all commands. If I tell it to jump, it says "how high". Since I routinely send confidential friend-to-friend type e-mails to several people and want those to stay totally private, I also routinely delete them from my history by going into "tools" and just wiping out everything when I'm ready to leave the computer for any length of time, avoids all those prying eyes that way. It's been working perfectly! I also have things set so it wipes out everything after "0" days, too. Now today it's back to its old tricks: even when I manually tell it to delete EVERYTHING, it does zip. I open up "history" and there it all is, everywhere I've been, everything I've opened, and I have to delete things one at a time. Why isn't this consistent? There must be a way around this stupid problem! When I manually tell it to delete history and files RIGHT NOW, why isn't that happening every time? Grrrrr!!!

 


~~joannaran~~

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 11-24-2004 - 6:01pm
I don't check my history every day because I have it empty at the end of the day. But when someone mentions it I go and delete it and check to make sure that it was empty when I turned on the computer. I have not had it not delete. I am the only one that uses this computer my DH don't even know how to open the email......lol.....it took me a while to figure out how to not save it for weeks at a time......lol......But it may be a glitch too.....hard to tell. If someone else has had this happen and got it fixed maybe they will stop by and tell us.......Janet

 


Have a nice day !.
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Registered: 06-17-2003
Thu, 11-25-2004 - 12:03am

Two issues here.
1. Your PC. You must delete the index.dat file to completely erase your history cache. You can only delete this from a command prompt, and if you are running XP such is not possible.

2. Your ISP may be using your index.dat file everytime you log on, welcome to "big brother".

Ed