Urls in Registry (W98)

[magmafire41]

Is it true that the registry holds every url you ever visited since from the beginning? Where in the registry is that. Not the url from the address bar. I know about that. Thanks for your feedback.

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[dudeinAmerica]

Actually what you're talking about is the History. Since you have Windows 98, your history folder is at the location of c:\windows\history. This does store as many days as you would like. The settings for this can be changed....get in Internet Explorer, click on Tools-Options-->and at the bottom enter the number of days.

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[magmafire41]

I understand that, but I was actually in the registry when I was looking at this. So are you saying that if I delete the history, then they would not show up in the registry. Where in the registry would I find this again. I can't find it anymore.

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[report_2]

You will not find the History's URLs within your registry. You will find them in Internet Explorer.

In your registry you can find the Typed URLs that are shown in the Address bar's drop down menu. They are located at:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs.

I do find a list of sites for which I have saved the login for:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider\user\Data\...

There is a file in your Content.IE5 folder called "index.dat" that maintains a list of all of the URLs you have visited for the purpose of speeding up the access to these previously visited sites.

The Content.IE5 folder is found in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Mine is located at:
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
(Yes, I am using IE6sp1)

Once you start the PC this index.dat file is in use and can not be deleted except from within DOS or before Windows loads.
There are many ways to delete it and Windows will rebuild a new one upon startup so it can start storing them again.
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22delete+index.dat%22>Google search results for "delete index.dat"</a>

Personally, when mine gets over 1Mb, I use an earlier version of <a target="_blank" href=http://www.langa.com/wipetif_bat.htm>Langa's WipeTIF.bat file</a>

So, to answer your original question of "Is it true that the registry holds every url you ever visited since from the beginning?"
The answer is No, it is not true.

HTH

[magmafire41]

Thanks, that is the most comprehensive answer to that question I have received to date. Again, thanks a lot.

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[report_2]

You are welcome.