How can I make History to save internet visits?

[CiskeDeRat]

History only saves visits to files etc. on the computer, not anything visited on the web. I've tried to find the answer in older posts but all I found was this.....:

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Quote: Originally Posted by 3DPiper

After some research, I deleted the index.dat file in

C:\USERS\*USER*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History\Low\History.IE5

and everything works fine.. History is recording again, and everything seems very speedy..

Hope this helps someone else.


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.....and I don't know if that is still a valid solution, this was an almost 3 year old post.

Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Ciske.

 

[pbcopter]

Yes it is still valid, however, it is a special hidden file.

To delete it, open a Command prompt with administrative privileges.
Right click on the Command Prompt icon and select Run as administrator.
Then type or copy and paste the following:

cd c:\Users\{user}\Appdata\local\Microsoft\Windows\History\Low\History.ie5

{user} = Your user name.

This will bring you to the directory
to see the file

type dir /as
The size of index.dat will be around 16MB and that is the limit and why the history is stopped

Type
del index.dat /as

To delete the file

Your history will then be retained and continue to be saved.
Unfortunately this must be done periodically.

 

[roncerr]

In IE use Tools/Internet Options/Browsing History...Make sure "Delete...on exit" is UNchecked and look at the "settings" to make sure the options are set to remember history for the period of time you want.

Re: Index.dat: I don't know if it will fix anything but I don't think it would hurt to try.

 

[CiskeDeRat]

Pb, thank you, it was a little scary to work with the cp because I have no idea what I can mess up there, but it worked and history is being saved as we speak.

Ron, thank you, yes, I had already checked those places out many times, and those were all the way they were supposed to be. I had never changed anything there to begin with anyway.

But I found the above mentioned file the way it was described and 'history' is back, thank you very much!!!