This just HAS to be an XP glitch!!!
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This just HAS to be an XP glitch!!!
| 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!!!

Have a nice day !.
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