[WEB4LIB] Re: IE and remembering URLs

[rich at richardwiggins.com]

There's a cookie washer at www.webroot.com that will, besides clearing cookies, clear inline auto-completes, location bar, cache, etc.  Shareware.  You can invoke it or schedule it.

When I attend conferences I often marvel at how public terminals are set up in a way where subsequent users can see evidence of previous users' activities.  It would sure be nice if browsers had built-in configuration options for wiping all tracks away.  IE6 does let you clear up cookies.

/rich

On Fri, 10 August 2001, Pär Nilsson wrote:

> 
> At 19:43 2001-08-08 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I searched the archive and came across the following post from Feb 2000:
> >
> >> I was making an online purchase and it rembered my Mastercard number and
> >> inserted it in different sites at a later date. Even though I was very
> >> careful
> >> to clear the cache, history, and other locations of pertinent pages.
> >> I don't have to explain the problems with this now....
> >
> >The response to this was to turn off the AutoComplete function.
> >
> >However, what I am trying to find out is: 
> >Is this the same function that remembers what has been typed in the
> >location bar?
> >Reason I ask: I can start to type a URL in the location bar, IE remembers
> >it and completes it. But when I look in c:\windows\history that particular
> >URL is not actually there (the previous user has removed it ..??).
> >where does IE keep this information? Is it a file somewhere? Is it
> >accessible? How does it do this?
> >(IE5, win98)
> >
> >thanks,
> >Vicki
> >
> >
> >Information Technology Support Officer
> >
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> 
> Hi!
> 
> The URLs you recently have typed in at the location bar are stored in the
> registry at:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
> It seems to hold the 25 most recent URLs typed in.
> 
> According to an article in Microsoft's Knowledge base(1) the AutoComplete
> feature uses these URLs, together with your Favorites and History folders,
> the contents of the folder you specify for files or folders, and the
> contents of the left pane in Windows Explorer. I'm not sure what "the left
> pane" etc. means. All your hard disks and mapped network drives?
> 
> The following web pages provide pretty clear explanations of how to use
> AutoComplete. Passwords are said to be stored in encrypted form, but I
> don't know sure if they are stored in the registry or in a separate file,
> presumably the latter.
> 
> (1) <URL:http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/1/48.ASP>
>     <URL:http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/ie50-08.shtml> (mostly a
> copy of the MS page)
> 
> 
> 
> Pär Nilsson
> 
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