Lost History of 15 months

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I set my computer's clock back to 15 months ago and then set it back to today.
Then I went to my history to go to a site that I went to 2 days ago.
Everything
is gone except for the sites that I visited today. Is there a way to recover
the missing weeks of visited sites?

Thanks
 
[/Why/ is everybody doing this all of a sudden?]

As far as Windows is concerned, your "2 days ago" is WinXP's "15 months and
2 days ago" now. If finding the site via History is so important, use
System Restore to "go back" to yesterday (when it "was" Aug-03).
 
Actually what I need is to get back the whole history for these 15 months.
Do you know where it is stored? Is it in 1 single index.dat file or is there
an index.data file for each week? Also I have WIN98 not XP
Thanks for your help:)

PA Bear said:
[/Why/ is everybody doing this all of a sudden?]

As far as Windows is concerned, your "2 days ago" is WinXP's "15 months and
2 days ago" now. If finding the site via History is so important, use
System Restore to "go back" to yesterday (when it "was" Aug-03).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Needhelp:) said:
I set my computer's clock back to 15 months ago and then set it back to
today. Then I went to my history to go to a site that I went to 2 days
ago. Everything
is gone except for the sites that I visited today. Is there a way to
recover the missing weeks of visited sites?

Thanks
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Your only avenue is to use Scanreg/restore to make your machine "think" it's
yesterday or the day before (in our time). Otherwise you will not have
access to the History.

Did you set your clock back to be able to reinstall some shareware you
installed last year?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Needhelp:) said:
Actually what I need is to get back the whole history for these 15
months. Do you know where it is stored? Is it in 1 single index.dat file
or is there an index.data file for each week? Also I have WIN98 not XP
Thanks for your help:)

PA Bear said:
[/Why/ is everybody doing this all of a sudden?]

As far as Windows is concerned, your "2 days ago" is WinXP's "15 months
and 2 days ago" now. If finding the site via History is so important,
use System Restore to "go back" to yesterday (when it "was" Aug-03).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Needhelp:) said:
I set my computer's clock back to 15 months ago and then set it back
to today. Then I went to my history to go to a site that I went to 2
days ago. Everything
is gone except for the sites that I visited today. Is there a way to
recover the missing weeks of visited sites?

Thanks
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There are a couple of convoluted ways to get your history back. But 2 easy
ways are as follows:

1. There is a free program called IEHistoryView v1.22 that will extract ALL
of your history. You would be able to right click the selected link and open
a window to start browsing. You will be able to sort by date last visited,
Title of page/site, etc. Link to site: http://www.nirsoft.net/

2. Ahem... Install and use Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/ to
import the IE history which is still all there in the hidden index.dat file.
You will then be able to view the history and either browse the sites in
Firefox or copy the link into IE6 and browse there. I am surprised that MS
hasn't provided this option to reload past history since it is all there in
the hidden .dat file.

Both of these options will give you what you want.
Cheers
Tony

PA Bear said:
Your only avenue is to use Scanreg/restore to make your machine "think" it's
yesterday or the day before (in our time). Otherwise you will not have
access to the History.

Did you set your clock back to be able to reinstall some shareware you
installed last year?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Needhelp:) said:
Actually what I need is to get back the whole history for these 15
months. Do you know where it is stored? Is it in 1 single index.dat file
or is there an index.data file for each week? Also I have WIN98 not XP
Thanks for your help:)

PA Bear said:
[/Why/ is everybody doing this all of a sudden?]

As far as Windows is concerned, your "2 days ago" is WinXP's "15 months
and 2 days ago" now. If finding the site via History is so important,
use System Restore to "go back" to yesterday (when it "was" Aug-03).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

Needhelp:) wrote:
I set my computer's clock back to 15 months ago and then set it back
to today. Then I went to my history to go to a site that I went to 2
days ago. Everything
is gone except for the sites that I visited today. Is there a way to
recover the missing weeks of visited sites?

Thanks
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