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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL
entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
Trunch wrote:
Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. I used a keyword of "MRU" plus a few swear words, and found this. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...0-3a654f63a19a Using Regedit, have a look first, and verify that the information you want to get rid of, matches the named entries in the above article. To be sure you're in the right place to do the erasure. From that thread... "Open regedit then navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths After that delete all of the paths you want to (e.g. url1, url2, etc). " That page has some other registry locations you can look at, in case that's not the correct one. Paul |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
Thanks for trying.
"Paul" escreveu na mensagem ... Trunch wrote: Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. I used a keyword of "MRU" plus a few swear words, and found this. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...0-3a654f63a19a Using Regedit, have a look first, and verify that the information you want to get rid of, matches the named entries in the above article. To be sure you're in the right place to do the erasure. From that thread... "Open regedit then navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths After that delete all of the paths you want to (e.g. url1, url2, etc). " That page has some other registry locations you can look at, in case that's not the correct one. Paul |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
On 24/04/2016 05:04, Trunch wrote:
Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. It's not rocket science. You just need to go to your Tools "Internet Options" and then look for something like this: Internet Options http://s31.postimg.org/og5np8e8r/2016_04_24_1703.png -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
Trunch wrote:
Thanks for trying. That (TypedURL) is one of the storage locations. There are a couple others. I see Good Guy has beat me to it. And the first part of doing this, requires getting the menu bar on there :-) Right-click the title bar area, and tick the "Menu Bar" option. That will give you the familiar words you see at the top of this picture. I try to run my browsers with the menu bar. http://s31.postimg.org/aioqde5jv/history3.gif ******* I did an analysis, to see how clean that method is. My C: drive is 180GB. It has 40GB of files on it. First, you don't want to have to search the whole 180GB, for this sort of forensic work. Using disk2vhd from sysinternals.com, you can make a 40GB file from the contents of the 180GB C: drive. This prevents the other 140GB of old files and deleted content, from accidentally triggering your forensic search. The 40GB VHD file has only the actual files in it, nothing else. I loaded the 40GB VHD file onto the ram drive, and used the HXD hex editor. I only downloaded HXD Hex Editor for free recently, and it's a 64 bit version with no size limit like my previous hex editor. It can search the file at around 1GB per second, or check the entire disk image in 40 seconds. HXD also supports Unicode text strings, so you won't be irritated by missing stuff because of the text encoding used. Windows uses both 8 bit ASCII and 16 bit (wide) characters. In addition to the Registry, I was also getting a hit here. I think this is visited pages. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ WebCache WebCacheV01.dat (50MB) Also, there is a history storage area. I got a hit on the URL here (as well as the TypeURL registry thing). Now, while you could visit here from Linux, Windows doesn't let you navigate here. Because it has a custom view, and presents the information as a "logical" view. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ History\History.IE5\MSHist012016042420160425 When you attempt to navigate there, Explorer renders that as "Today". You need to have the File Explorer window set to show system files, hidden files, file extensions, turn all the jazz on, so you can get here. Otherwise you won't even be able to get here for a look. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ History Today Now, after the cleaning in the "history3.gif" in my first link, the WebCacheV01.dat is smaller, but still has a reference to the web site. So the file system is not "minty fresh". The URL bar, yes, it no longer digs up the URL on a match, but the file system itself isn't really perfectly clean. Maybe with CCleaner, it can be encourages to remove WebCacheV01.dat ? Then, let's say CCleaner manages to remove the last hit. On my example 180GB hard drive, now I have verified that the 40GB of valid files is clean. I have not checked the 140GB of unused file space, which can have old versions of files. If you want your OS partition to be "police department clean", you'd need to overwrite the 140GB of white space. Making an empty 140GB file will do that. I use dd.exe for such purposes, as fsutil "cheats" and is not suitable as a cleaning tool. The CreateFile in fsutil is a sparse file, and no actual writes happen (so it won't erase an NTFS volume for you). So Good Guys method solves the URL bar problem. How much further you go, depends on how clean you need it. Paul |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
On 4/24/2016 12:07 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 24/04/2016 05:04, Trunch wrote: Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. It's not rocket science. You just need to go to your Tools "Internet Options" and then look for something like this: Internet Options http://s31.postimg.org/og5np8e8r/2016_04_24_1703.png -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ Newsgroups are text base documents, not HTML or do they handle image files. You post containing an imaged does not come through, for me and other user. Consequently no one knows what you are talking about. |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:40:20 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote: On 4/24/2016 12:07 PM, Good Guy wrote: On 24/04/2016 05:04, Trunch wrote: Hello Windows users, can't erase Internet Explorer's address bar URL entries. Tried the usual way (tools, options...) and tried Ccleaner also but it doesn't work. Restore doesn't work also. Can you help? Thanks. It's not rocket science. You just need to go to your Tools "Internet Options" and then look for something like this: Internet Options http://s31.postimg.org/og5np8e8r/2016_04_24_1703.png -- /*This post contains rich text (HTML). if you don't like it then you can kill-filter the poster without crying about it like a small baby so that you don't see this poster's posts ever again.*/ /*This message is best read in Mozilla Thunderbird as it uses 21st century technology.*/ Newsgroups are text base documents, not HTML or do they handle image files. You post containing an imaged does not come through, for me and other user. Consequently no one knows what you are talking about. Keith, the link he posted does function and does provide an appropriate image. He did not post an image to Usenet, rather he posted it to an image hosting service and included a link to that image in his post. |
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How to clean URL history on Internet Explorer?
Too much sadness old windows has been forgotten by users. Think this
intranet should help to buy new old editions just in case we need to surf the web. The case is someone has been using this pc and now I can't understand these changes, Time zone list for example. People like reliable browsers. "Paul" escreveu na mensagem ... Trunch wrote: Thanks for trying. That (TypedURL) is one of the storage locations. There are a couple others. I see Good Guy has beat me to it. And the first part of doing this, requires getting the menu bar on there :-) Right-click the title bar area, and tick the "Menu Bar" option. That will give you the familiar words you see at the top of this picture. I try to run my browsers with the menu bar. http://s31.postimg.org/aioqde5jv/history3.gif ******* I did an analysis, to see how clean that method is. My C: drive is 180GB. It has 40GB of files on it. First, you don't want to have to search the whole 180GB, for this sort of forensic work. Using disk2vhd from sysinternals.com, you can make a 40GB file from the contents of the 180GB C: drive. This prevents the other 140GB of old files and deleted content, from accidentally triggering your forensic search. The 40GB VHD file has only the actual files in it, nothing else. I loaded the 40GB VHD file onto the ram drive, and used the HXD hex editor. I only downloaded HXD Hex Editor for free recently, and it's a 64 bit version with no size limit like my previous hex editor. It can search the file at around 1GB per second, or check the entire disk image in 40 seconds. HXD also supports Unicode text strings, so you won't be irritated by missing stuff because of the text encoding used. Windows uses both 8 bit ASCII and 16 bit (wide) characters. In addition to the Registry, I was also getting a hit here. I think this is visited pages. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ WebCache WebCacheV01.dat (50MB) Also, there is a history storage area. I got a hit on the URL here (as well as the TypeURL registry thing). Now, while you could visit here from Linux, Windows doesn't let you navigate here. Because it has a custom view, and presents the information as a "logical" view. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ History\History.IE5\MSHist012016042420160425 When you attempt to navigate there, Explorer renders that as "Today". You need to have the File Explorer window set to show system files, hidden files, file extensions, turn all the jazz on, so you can get here. Otherwise you won't even be able to get here for a look. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ History Today Now, after the cleaning in the "history3.gif" in my first link, the WebCacheV01.dat is smaller, but still has a reference to the web site. So the file system is not "minty fresh". The URL bar, yes, it no longer digs up the URL on a match, but the file system itself isn't really perfectly clean. Maybe with CCleaner, it can be encourages to remove WebCacheV01.dat ? Then, let's say CCleaner manages to remove the last hit. On my example 180GB hard drive, now I have verified that the 40GB of valid files is clean. I have not checked the 140GB of unused file space, which can have old versions of files. If you want your OS partition to be "police department clean", you'd need to overwrite the 140GB of white space. Making an empty 140GB file will do that. I use dd.exe for such purposes, as fsutil "cheats" and is not suitable as a cleaning tool. The CreateFile in fsutil is a sparse file, and no actual writes happen (so it won't erase an NTFS volume for you). So Good Guys method solves the URL bar problem. How much further you go, depends on how clean you need it. Paul |
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