This is driving me absolutely nuts. Running XP Home SP2 with IE 6
sp2. Earlier in the week, I installed a new hard drive and cloned
the old one onto the new one. Things appeared to be working just
fine until I clicked the button in IE to view History. This is in my
normal limited account. The admin account works fine.
The only thing that shows up in the pane is a link to a folder called
History.IE5 and sometimes a file named index.dat is listed under it,
sometimes, not. So, I went to options and cleared the
History. Didn't help. I did it again and rebooted. Didn't
help. Then I check the Temporary Internet Files and almost the same
problem, except there the folder is named Content.IE5. I clicked to
delete those, too, including offline content and cookies. Nada. Same problem.
Logged into the admin account and tried deleting the "Temporary
Internet Files" and History folders from "\Documents and
Settings\myAccount\Local Settings" and rebooting. They are recreated
the next time I log into the named account, but still don't
work. Same behavior as above.
I tried installing SP2 again (I have a copy of the full installation
file) because that is what it says in the MSKB to re-install IE 6 in
SP2. Didn't help. I tried changing the account type to admin and
logging back in a deleting the caches from the IE options menu and
rebooting. Aha! I thought I had it licked. Logged out, reset the
account to limited, and rebooted. Problem was back.
I tried copying the folders over from the admin account to the
limited account since the admin account cache is working but that
didn't help either. I tried searching the registry for all
occurrence of \History and all the hits I got seemed to be pointing
in the right direction.
I've Googled every combination I can think of for my problem, and
everything says that deleting the folders should do the trick. But
it doesn't. Gah!
Re-installing XP was the thing I was trying to avoid doing in the
first place, which is why I cloned instead. And I'm not yet to the
point of being desperate enough to do that. It takes me many days to
get everything re-installed and re-tweaked the way I like them, so
that will be an absolute last resort; it's the nuclear option. I am
almost to the point, however, of creating a new user account but that
entails its own headaches because things will still have to be
tweaked. I guess that would be the conventional warfare option.
I've also tried searching the list archives, but didn't come up with anything.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and successfully resolved
it? Sorry for the length, but I wanted to get all the details in now
instead of in half a dozen different messages.
TIA. Big time!
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Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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