Internet Explorer Won't Clear History FIXED

[Nick Le Lievre]

I just noticed a problem. If I clear history with Internet Explorer
everything disapears under Today but if I close Internet Explorer and reload
the Today history that was previously cleared comes back again. Whats
happening is a program is locking the history file so it remains as it was
when this program locked it.

In my case I tracked the program locking the history file to Outlook 2002
whilst running Outlook I could clear History but it would come back if I
reloaded Internet Explorer. The only way to clear with Outlook open was to
go into Documents and Settings > Profile Name > Local > History and select
all and delete files from there.

The simple solution is to find and close whatever program it is locking the
history file then clear the History - this works. Becuase I run Outlook all
the time even at startup if I want to clear History I have to close Outlook
then clear then re-open Outlook.

Internet Explorer cannot clear History
Cannot clear History Internet Explorer
IE clear history
Won't clear history IE
Won't clear history Internet Explorer

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[Nick Le Lievre]

I just noticed a problem. If I clear history with Internet Explorer
everything disapears under Today but if I close Internet Explorer and
reload the Today history that was previously cleared comes back
again. Whats happening is a program is locking the history file so it
remains as it was when this program locked it.

In my case I tracked the program locking the history file to Outlook
2002 whilst running Outlook I could clear History but it would come
back if I reloaded Internet Explorer. The only way to clear with
Outlook open was to go into Documents and Settings > Profile Name >
Local > History and select all and delete files from there.

The simple solution is to find and close whatever program it is
locking the history file then clear the History - this works. Becuase
I run Outlook all the time even at startup if I want to clear History
I have to close Outlook then clear then re-open Outlook.

Internet Explorer cannot clear History
Cannot clear History Internet Explorer
IE clear history
Won't clear history IE
Won't clear history Internet Explorer

IE will not clear History
History will not clear IE
History will not clear Internet Explorer

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[Nick Le Lievre]

IE will not clear History
History will not clear IE
History will not clear Internet Explorer

Also suspect MSN Messenger - because I just had the same once problem with
Outlook closed and Messenger open untill I exit Messenger also. However I
cannot reproduce this problem but can with Outlook open everytime. But
currently with Outlook close and Messenger open IE History clears > with
Outlook opened then closed with Messenger open IE History clears. As I say I
had it once where Outlook was closed with Messenger open and IE History
would not clear untill I closed Messenger also but 95% of the time you just
have to close Outlook (or whatever program is causing it mainly).

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[Nick Le Lievre]

Also suspect MSN Messenger - because I just had the same once problem
with Outlook closed and Messenger open untill I exit Messenger also.
However I cannot reproduce this problem but can with Outlook open
everytime. But currently with Outlook close and Messenger open IE
History clears > with Outlook opened then closed with Messenger open
IE History clears. As I say I had it once where Outlook was closed
with Messenger open and IE History would not clear untill I closed
Messenger also but 95% of the time you just have to close Outlook (or
whatever program is causing it mainly).

Right I somehow managed to get the same thing happen again with Outlook
closed and Messenger open. However this time closing Messenger didn't enable
me to clear History - wierd. So I closed everything I could and it would
still not clear History - ie kept coming back. Eventually I closed
explorer.exe itself from the task manager (so the taskbar dissapeared) then
I reloaded it from the task manager via run and I was then able to clear
History again. So in this rare case when its not Outlook or the other main
program causing it suspect Messenger then explorer.exe itself.

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[Nick Le Lievre]

Right I somehow managed to get the same thing happen again with
Outlook closed and Messenger open. However this time closing
Messenger didn't enable me to clear History - wierd. So I closed
everything I could and it would still not clear History - ie kept
coming back. Eventually I closed explorer.exe itself from the task
manager (so the taskbar dissapeared) then I reloaded it from the task
manager via run and I was then able to clear History again. So in
this rare case when its not Outlook or the other main program causing
it suspect Messenger then explorer.exe itself.

This is screen shots of what I just described

http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/mess.JPG Outlook Closed Messenger Open
ready to clear History 18:36
http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/cleared.JPG History is now cleared in
Internet Explorer 18:36
http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/back.JPG History is back after closing and
reopening IE 18:37

I cannot reproduce this problem consistently when Outlook is closed in the
instanse above the only way to clear the History was by closing everything
then only by restarting explorer.exe from task manager although I have had
it happen twice when I just needed to exit Messenger. So this could affect
anyone I guess I`m running IE6 sp1 but it happens on other versions as well.

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[Nick Le Lievre]

Nick Le Lievre wrote:

I cannot reproduce this problem consistently when Outlook is closed
in the instanse above the only way to clear the History was by
closing everything then only by restarting explorer.exe from task
manager although I have had it happen twice when I just needed to
exit Messenger. So this could affect anyone I guess I`m running IE6
sp1 but it happens on other versions as well.

Also I have noticed what has happened quite a few times now (not exactly
rare) I closed Outlook then cleared History but it kept coming back untill I
exited Messenger. I don't know how to reproduce this problem but in general
use this can occur. With Outlook open it always occurs but it seems quite
often also with Messenger open but not always. There has been only 1 time
where I had to end explorer.exe on top of closing Outlook and Messenger so
this is rarer still.

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[Nick Le Lievre]

Also I have noticed what has happened quite a few times now (not
exactly rare) I closed Outlook then cleared History but it kept
coming back untill I exited Messenger. I don't know how to reproduce
this problem but in general use this can occur. With Outlook open it
always occurs but it seems quite often also with Messenger open but
not always. There has been only 1 time where I had to end
explorer.exe on top of closing Outlook and Messenger so this is rarer
still.

Just had it again with Outlook closed *and* Messenger exited... the History
kept coming back in Internet Explorer after clear History had been applied.
Again I closed all apps on taskbar then ended the explorer.exe process via
Task Manager then restarted it File>New..Run and was then able to clear the
History. This has happened twice now and many more times where I needed to
exit Messenger.

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