IE8 and Jumplist

Airbot said:

Not saying it's the case, but running something like CCleaner with it's default settings will erase the recent jumplist in IE8. Just something else to consider if you use it, or similar.

I use it sparingly and have that option unchecked.

Well, I just deleted the CustomDestinations again after having rolled back a snapshot. After deleting it, some history shows up but it's old history of links that were launched from within Explorer, .xml files etc.. Those that were still valid worked. As soon as I close IE out, the jumplist history disappears and a new CustomDestinations file pops into the CustomDestinations folder. What I have found out that does work, dragging a url from IE address bar to the IE icon on the taskbar will pin it to the list which works and remains. Still no population of ongoing IE history though.

Here's what I get everytime I delete the customDestination file belonging to IE.



As soon as I close the browse, I lose the recent items.