IE 6 - Home Page Problem

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Michael Smith

I cannot get rid of the URL's that come up in my Home
Page options line. I clear the history, but it doesn't
get rid of these same URL's. I can't find where in the
registry I'd need to get rid of them. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks!
 
These are coming from the History\index.dat file.
To delete the History folder (and the index.dat file)
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Free History Eraser:
http://smartprotector.com/eraser/free-history-eraser.htm
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It's also been reported that you can drag an index.dat file to the
Spybot S&D shredder (then restart.)
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Hands-on methods
Remember, you want to delete the History folder (and might as well delete
the TIF folder.)

How To: Delete the Temporary Internet Files in Windows XP
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers4.htm#history

Additional information regarding the index.dat files:
There's a very good explanation at: http://www.purgeie.com/indexdat.htm
There's more information and an interesting (free) program at
http://www.fsm.nl/ward/
Spider V1.16 allows you to see what's in the index.dat files.

Hope this helps,
Don
 
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