IE history won't exceed a few weeks before "freezing"

BakedPotato · 09-21-2009, 10:17 AM

this is a rather complicated issue I've had for a long while.

I love history, and rather than fill my Favorites with all manner of web pages I've ever visited, I like to expand my history on IE to at least one year. I've never emptied my Mozilla Firefox history so I have records on every page I've ever visited on that web browser.

But starting several months ago, perhaps even a year or so, IE has been doing something where after several weeks worth of history pages are stored up, it no longer creates history entries.

Example: I can have twelve weeks worth of history in my history, and then starting on a new week, the Today folder will remain totally empty no matter how many pages I visit. This continues on and on.

I've tried removing the oldest week, but the newer history continues to fail to produce any entries. I'd even removed ALL the history folders, but it continues to not produce any new history. The only resolution I've found was completely dumping all my browser history (save for temporary files and cookies), causing a total loss of all the stored addresses in my address bar.

So I've done this for the past several weeks, and tried to avoid further instances by lowering the amount of days in my history folder.

But it kept coming back, and just yesterday it did something similar---removing all my history entries for an entire two hours of the day before I "caught" it, and it started recording history entries again.

In comparison, the IE at my job is IE7, and successfully keeps and records history for the past 25 weeks without fault.

This problem started for me with IE7, but continues on with IE8.

What is the cause/problem of this? Do I need to allocate maximum memory to history storage or is this a bug with the IE version I'm using?

My system is Windows XP Service Pack 3, and memory space is of no concern to me---I have 1.5 TB of harddrive space combined (both drives), and 4 gigabytes RAM (though XP 32bit only allocates 2 or 3 GB to use).

BakedPotato · 10-21-2009, 08:03 AM

Bump!

09-21-2009, 10:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
BakedPotato Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 78 OS: Windows 7 Premium (64 bit)	IE history won't exceed a few weeks before "freezing" this is a rather complicated issue I've had for a long while. I love history, and rather than fill my Favorites with all manner of web pages I've ever visited, I like to expand my history on IE to at least one year. I've never emptied my Mozilla Firefox history so I have records on every page I've ever visited on that web browser. But starting several months ago, perhaps even a year or so, IE has been doing something where after several weeks worth of history pages are stored up, it no longer creates history entries. Example: I can have twelve weeks worth of history in my history, and then starting on a new week, the Today folder will remain totally empty no matter how many pages I visit. This continues on and on. I've tried removing the oldest week, but the newer history continues to fail to produce any entries. I'd even removed ALL the history folders, but it continues to not produce any new history. The only resolution I've found was completely dumping all my browser history (save for temporary files and cookies), causing a total loss of all the stored addresses in my address bar. So I've done this for the past several weeks, and tried to avoid further instances by lowering the amount of days in my history folder. But it kept coming back, and just yesterday it did something similar---removing all my history entries for an entire two hours of the day before I "caught" it, and it started recording history entries again. In comparison, the IE at my job is IE7, and successfully keeps and records history for the past 25 weeks without fault. This problem started for me with IE7, but continues on with IE8. What is the cause/problem of this? Do I need to allocate maximum memory to history storage or is this a bug with the IE version I'm using? My system is Windows XP Service Pack 3, and memory space is of no concern to me---I have 1.5 TB of harddrive space combined (both drives), and 4 gigabytes RAM (though XP 32bit only allocates 2 or 3 GB to use).

10-21-2009, 08:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
BakedPotato Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 78 OS: Windows 7 Premium (64 bit)	Re: IE history won't exceed a few weeks before "freezing" Bump!