Internet Explorer wont retain browser history and cookies

[markom]

I do not know what happened, but for about a month now my browser regularly deletes my browser history (the one in the address bar) and all the cookies. It seems to happen every few hours without any pattern that could lead me to identify the trigger. I think the problem started around the same time I installed BitDefender 2008 which has since been deleted from my system (had to do a manual uninstall as the normal one would not work). Since the problem started, I went from IE 6.0 to 7.0 but this still happens.

XP with Service Pack 2.

IE settings:

Privacy - medium
Empty Temps files when browser is closed - disabled.
Scanned for viruses with NOD32 and for spywares with search & destroy.

Anything else I can do other than formatting?

[Go The Power]

Re-install Internet Explore 7

• Please go Here (Click on the Blue link) and download a fresh version of Internet Explore 7.
• Uninstall the version of IE you have installed now, to do so follow these steps:

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Double click Add or Remove Programs
4. Scroll down until you find Internet Explore
5. Then click Change/Remove, and follow the prompts.

** Please Note: If you are unable to see IE7 in Add or Remove Programs follow these steps:

• Click Start
• Click Run
• Type or copy and paste, into the text box:

%windir%\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe

• Then Press Enter **

• Restart your computer.
• Install the fresh version of Internet Explore.

[markom]

Thanks but it has not helped, anything else I can try?

[Go The Power]

Try this

Registry Fix

Click Start => Run => type in Notepad, press Ok.

Please copy everything from the quote below into Notepad

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache]
"Persistent"=dword:00000001

Save this as fix.reg, Choose to 'Save type as' as All Files. Save it to your desktop.
It should look like this:
Double click on fix.reg & allow it to merge into the registry.

[markom]

Thank you, but once again the problem persists, anything else?

[Go The Power]

try this

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/12/628499.aspx

[markom]

Originally Posted by Go The Power

try this

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/12/628499.aspx

I tried that but the problem is still there. Are we out of possible solutions or is there still something I can try?

[Go The Power]

I am used to the reg fix working, so this is a new problem to me. I will have a search and see what I can find.

Also Do you have these problems in any other browsers? Please try one of the below (both are free):

Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Opera
http://www.opera.com/

[markom]

I have been using FireFox and this has never happened.

[Go The Power]

try this


Open IE, on the menu bar click Tools => Internet options, under the tab General, under browseing histroy click Settings, for Sleect disc space to use set it too 200mb and for history set it to 20 days

[markom]

Tried the exact values you have posted...still no success. I even had higher values before and the problem was still there.

[Go The Power]

In Internet options what is Privacy set too? also what is Security set too.

[markom]

Security Medium-high, Privacy Medium.

I think that is the default when I did the hard reset.

[Go The Power]

Try lowering them

[markom]

Done that without success. Thanks for still trying to help me. :)

[The_Bug]

A little out of date... But here ya go. And This worked for me, with the same problem!!!

First off...Back up your Favorites...! They should remains in tact but just incase? Download the IE7 off M-soft, and save it to a known location..


Uninstall IE : Control Panel / Add & Remove prgs. / Uninstall Internet Explorer..
Now go to the {Add & Remove Windows Components} and remove IE and MSN Explorer.

Reboot

Go to {Windows Explorer} or My Computer and delete (ie) under Windows folder... Delete anything under c:/ programs (Internet Explorer) Note: It will not allow you to delete the folder itself (Intetnet Explorer) or some of it's components... It's ok, delete what you can!...

Before you go any further do a search for Internet Explorer.. Delete all that stuff too! Note: only the folders relating to IE it's self... Think you got the idea?

Now reboot into SAFE mode and delete the Internet Explorer under c:/programs... This is the only time you'll be able to delete it...Note again: The Inernet Explorer will show back up when you reboot into windows but will be empty!!!

Reboot back to Windows...

Now reinstall IE... The IE icon won't be there.. You'll have to create a shortcut to your desktop from c:/program/Internet Explorer...

Should be good to go..
No need to reply, I probably won't check back...

Later,
Bug!

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If you don't play your don't learn...
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