Re: Lose history, cookies, etc. on reboot

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From: Touch Base (animals_at_thezoo.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:15:53 +1000

"However, after reboot, everything disappear, no history, no auto complete,
no cookies (i.e., logging into sites over and over again). I've manually
removed the temp and history files; I've used smart protect to wipe
everything else."

What's the problem?

"Taz" <taz@theworld.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.SGI.4.40.0410262144560.10341-100000@shell01-g...
> Howdy all-
>
> I've taken a look through the KB and the archives, but I'm not really sure
> where this fits in, so apologies if this is in a FAQ somewhere.
>
> Running Win98SE w/ MSIE 6.0.x
>
> On a clean startup, MSIE works as it should. My cookies remain, auto
> complete works, my history is as it should be, etc.
>
> However, after reboot, everything disappear, no history, no auto complete,
> no cookies (i.e., logging into sites over and over again). I've manually
> removed the temp and history files; I've used smart protect to wipe
> everything else.
>
> I have AdAware and SpyBot on the machine, but -as is so common w/ these
> problems- this MSIE behavior just popped up out of nowhere. There were no
> hardware/software changes proceeding this behavior.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate a brainstorm or two.
>
> Regards-
>
> G
>

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