see my replies above

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It does not affect the address bar, Matt. That is the 1st thing I tried even before coming to computing.net. I have tried it every way possible including windows explorer; going to computer, control panel, internet properties, general tab, clear history. Even tried setting days to keep history to 1 and 0 days. Also went to c,windows, temporary files and deleted them AND history. Also in MSDOS: C:\Windows>smartdrv, deltree /y cookies, deltree /y tempor~1, deltree /y history, md history, deltree /y temp, md temp, deltree /y java, md java, win. I'm not concerned about family members seeing my history or snooping on me to see what I've been looking at because long ago I hit F1 while win is coming up and went to bios setup utility and established security password. I just don't like having my address window cluttered up. While I have you ear I also am trying to figure out how to get the windows password dialogue screen to quit coming up right after I turn my computer on. It has that d**n little yellow key and a space to put in your password. I never set up no stinkin' password. You just click on cancel and windows comes up anyway so what's the point?

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IE5 users, AOL or Bill Gates Original: Do you want to save your links and pick-off a few bad addresses? You say you can't find the proper menu options to do this, Read On. First READ MESSAGE #100 then come back, (http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/349.html). You need the History button on the MENU BAR. If it is not visible, You have four (+) options for getting buttons and menus visible to delete old links. 1) With IE open, Press "CTRL & H" keys. Did it work? No, Next... 2) Search through every backdoor until you find the buttons/pull downs you need to enable these options (explained in the first 100 messages) (http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/349.html). 3) Open the registry and enable the menu options from inside windows. Perform the following, This is SAFE. It only EXPORTS if the text in the line below is a valid statement to windows. [Copy this line and Paste] regedit /e c:\temp\setup.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" [Starting with regedit, ending with double quote into the run command box) hit OK]. This will export your IE setup options from the registry to file "C:\temp\setup.reg". Open this file in notepad and enable "Show_ToolBar"="yes". Save and exit. It may read"Show_ToolBar" ="no" Quotes are required on both sides of equal sign. Make sure Notepad does not rename it to a ".txt" file. Double click on the file (setup.reg) that you just saved in C:\TEMP. It will import itself into the registry overwriting the old data with the changes you made. Start IE. Do you have a menu bar? You may need to follow pull down menu: VIEW>EXPLORER BAR>HISTORY to see the History of sites visited and or do CUSTOMIZE and ADD the HISTORY button back if someone has removed it. In either case, "CTRL H" should work even if the button can not be seen. Close IE. 4) Run a java script HTML file. See HTML#1 Sample file (Copy and paste the text to local drive, save as "yourname.HTML". Open it with your browser. It should restore the buttons). In any case, the best method is to use IE to delete the URL's or undesired links which you no longer wish to see. With 'History' activated, expand the links under Today, Monday, Thursday, 1 week, bla blah... Delete the undesired links and/or base folders. If you are really trying to protect yourself, just purge everything, it is much easier (see prior messages). I prefer TweakUI, Close IE. From the RUN menu type 'regedit' (you need to delete everything you typed or pasted into IE address bar also) and navigate to] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs [and delete the link that started the whole problem. This should be obvious... Close the registry. Open IE. Type in the link www.isawtomuch.... and see if it auto completes. If "www.i" autocompletes to form "www.isawtomuch.com", you missed something. NOTE: Use a link that you typed, Not my example! This should have cleared the undesirable, and preserved the rest. If you do not wish to open the registry, perform the following: [Copy text, Paste] regedit /e c:\temp\explinks.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" [starting with regedit, ending with double quote into the RUN command box.] This will export your typed links from the registry to file in "C:\temp\" called "explinks.reg". Open this file in notepad and edit out the addresses you visited. Save and exit. Make sure Notepad does not rename it to a ".txt" file. Double click on the file. It will import itself into the registry overwriting the old data. You can also paste as text, saving as batch file (explink.bat). Double click on the batch file. It runs, you edit, you save, you import, you done. Takes about a minute tops! [HTML#1] *html?*head?*script language="javascript"?window.open("file:///c:/windows/readme.txt","newwindow","toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,width=640,height=480,left=0,top=0") history.back();*/script?*/head?*/html? [HTML#1] This is java script. Do not break it down into individual lines or it may error out. Pasting this type of data into this web page will most likely ruin it anyway. So you WILL have to place it in an editor where you see the Paragraph Markers. There should not be any! Just one long line. In message # 109 I pasted as is into this forum. The transition stripped the from the message. *** After you paste this into your editor, REPLACE the '*' with '', or it will do nothing at all! I placed these here in Hopes that it would preserve the text, as it is uploaded into this forum. There is SIX of EACH. As mentioned, Save as anyname.html and double click on the file name with your browser open. It can restore your menu buttons. This is common java script, most any site you visit does the same thing to open a new window. The usually turn off the menus, bars, go, and status bars. It should be safe. Use this advice at your own risk! I learned by looking and reading on one or two boxes (PC's) this may not work on 2000 or ME, but 95,98, & NT should be OK. You like that, Do it, it's OK. Do it at your OWN risk. It should be OK, nice ha.... Enough said.... /Chief

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FIx for post #9 html code, (near bottom) Replace * with LEFTARROW character. Replace ? with a RIGHTARROW character. There are SIX of each in the line above between [HTML#1] and [HTML#1. Good luck /Chief

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