Re: Clear History

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Your link (for XP) says:
To delete the History folder and index.dat (XP)

a.. Log on as Administrator and delete the desired <username> folder and
reboot.
(or log on as another user that has Administrator privileges)
Example: "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\HISTORY"

The instructions above kind of suggests they want to me to delete the entire
username folder, whereas the "example" suggests it is just the history
folder within that username. Assuming it is the latter, it will not let me
delete the history folder. It says something like "history is a necessary
Windows system folder and is required for Windows operation and cannot be
deleted"

What should I do?

Dean


"Jan Il" <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Dean :-)
>
> Your History folder may be corrupted. Try creating a new one and see if
> that helps:
>
> To create a new History Folder
> http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree
> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm (XP systems)
>
> or..
>
> To delete the History folder and index.dat (XP)
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
>
> Log on as Administrator and delete the desired <username> folder and
> reboot.
> (or log on as another user that has Administrator privileges)
> Example: "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\HISTORY"
>
> Hope this helps :-)
>
> Jan :)
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>
>> Under Tools Options (Windows XP Home), when I hit "clear history", the
>> hourglass appears and does not go away. I think I (later) actually
>> manually deleted the files, by using the history icon, but it still hangs
>> up. I deleted temp files and cookies with no problems.
>>
>> The computer sounds like it is thinking during all this time, but nothing
>> gets accomplished (20 minutes, also 4 tries later). I can close out of
>> it and internet explorer and the computer is then still alive. Could it
>> be that a parasite or virus is stopping this from working (I just did
>> scans of both)? Or could I have compromised this button somehow?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>> Dean
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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