Re: Impossible URL Scrub

From: Sandi - Microsoft MVP (sandi_hardmeier_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:23:25 +0800

You probably need to edit the registry as well; check out the advice about
the TypedURLs key at the URL below:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers4.htm#autocomplete 

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http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/
"Jordan" <jtheman_111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:18e9e01c44c36$70247940$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello Dan.
>
> Thanks for the advice, and for a moment I was convinced it
> would work. I ran the program and it said that all of
> those sites, the CNN, my School work sites, and a bunch of
> others were removed. However upon restarting internet
> explorer, they returned. As a matter of fact, they
> returned sooner than that. I could run the history eraser
> every second, and every time it was run, the same sites
> would be erased, but always present. It seems I've
> contracted some unlucky hex? Or maybe the computer gods
> just hate me.
>
> If you or anybody else has any ideas, I'd love some more
> advice.
>
> Thanks again Dan
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>These are coming from the History\index.dat file.
>>Free History Eraser from
>>http://smartprotector.com/eraser/free-history-eraser.htm
> will delete the
>>History folder (and the index.dat file) and a new one
> will be created when
>>you restart.
>>Or the History folder can be deleted manually:
>>http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
>>
>>Don
>>-- 
>>MVP IE/OE
>>Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may
> participate.
>>
>>"J" <jtheman_111[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:18dec01c44c30$cd82d060$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>> I have had a problem recurring for about a month now. A
>>> select few websites that I browsed approximately a month
>>> before today have been stuck in my URL bar perminently.
> No
>>> matter what registry keys or IE scrubs I use, they will
>>> not be removed. No problems occur until I initially
> begin
>>> typing a similar URL
>>>
>>> FOr Example, no URL's present until i type "www.c"
>>>
>>> Then results for some CNN/coldwar URL appear, which I
>>> visited for a school reference about a month ago.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to erase these seemingly permanent
> URL's?
>>> Feel free to contact my email address, and I would
>>> sincerely appreciated any solid support. Its getting on
> my
>>> nerves.
>>>
>>> Here are a few things i've tried:
>>>
>>> Deleting History/Cache/Cookies
>>> Using purgeIE.exe
>>> Erasing certain registry keys "TypedURLs"
>>> Reinstalling/updating
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>> J
>>
>>.
>>

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