Re: Internet Explorer history doesn't clear Fixed *sort of*

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Hi Nick :-)

Just a question....did you recently install the latest Outlook update
"Outlook Junk Email Filter?

Jan :)
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
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that's why they're so contagious.


Le Lievre" <nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just noticed a problem. If I clear history with Internet Explorer
everything disapears under Today but if I close Internet Explorer and
reload
the Today history that was previously cleared comes back again. Whats
happening is a program is locking the history file so it remains as it was
when this program locked it.

In my case I tracked the program locking the history file to Outlook 2002
whilst running Outlook I could clear History but it would come back if I
reloaded Internet Explorer. The only way to clear with Outlook open was to
go into Documents and Settings > Profile Name > Local > History and select
all and delete files from there.

The simple solution is to find and close whatever program it is locking
the
history file then clear the History - this works. Becuase I run Outlook
all
the time even at startup if I want to clear History I have to close
Outlook
then clear then re-open Outlook.

*Update*
Also suspect MSN Messenger - because I just had the same once problem with
Outlook closed and Messenger open untill I exit Messenger also. However I
cannot reproduce this problem but can with Outlook open everytime. But
currently with Outlook close and Messenger open IE History clears > with
Outlook opened then closed with Messenger open IE History clears. As I say
I
had it once where Outlook was closed with Messenger open and IE History
would not clear untill I closed Messenger also but 95% of the time you
just
have to close Outlook (or whatever program is causing it mainly).

*Update2*
Right I somehow managed to get the same thing happen again with Outlook
closed and Messenger open. However this time closing Messenger didn't
enable
me to clear History - wierd. So I closed everything I could and it would
still not clear History - ie kept coming back. Eventually I closed
explorer.exe itself from the task manager (so the taskbar dissapeared)
then
I reloaded it from the task manager via run and I was then able to clear
History again. So in this rare case when its not Outlook or the other main
program causing it suspect Messenger then explorer.exe itself.

*Update3*

This is screen shots of what I just described

http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/mess.JPG Outlook Closed Messenger Open
ready to clear History 18:36
http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/cleared.JPG History is now cleared in
Internet Explorer 18:36
http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/back.JPG History is back after closing
and
reopening IE 18:37

I cannot reproduce this problem consistently when Outlook is closed in the
instense above the only way to clear the History was by closing everything
then only by restarting explorer.exe from task manager although I have had
it happen twice when I just needed to exit Messenger. So this could affect
anyone I guess I`m running IE6 sp1 but it happens on other versions as
well.

Internet Explorer cannot clear History Cannot clear History Internet
Explorer IE clear history Won't clear history IE Won't clear history
Internet Explorer Internet Explorer does not clear History IE does not
clear
History History does not clear IE History does not clear Internet Explorer
Cannot delete History Internet Exploer Internet Explorer does not delete
History IE does not delete History History cannot clear Internet Explorer

History doesn't clear Internet Explorer
IE doesn't clear History

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