Well, your help finally paid off. It turned out to be the autocomplete of
the favorites used to get to certain sites. By carefully changing the
Autocomplete settings and deleting the "history" I managed to get rid of
all the unwanted information. You were very patient and persistent, and I
certainly appreciate your help. Poking around with all the features of IE8
myself might have done the trick, but maybe not. In spite of your
scolding, I was able to solve my problem, and learn an awful lot about IE.
Sorry if my persistence created undue effort on your part, but please
believe me that it was very valuable and, if I haven't said it before,
greatly appreciated! Although compared to you, I'm no more than a newbie,
I make an effort to teach those of my neighbors in my community that need
help, and are even more in the dark than I am. So I do my part in passing
on what little I know. Thanks once more for your help.
"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
news:hp5ddg$gvm$1@news.albasani.net...
> Abradaxis wrote:
>
>> I did a search for the TIF folder but could not find it. Where is the
>> TIF
>> folder so I can examine it please?
>
> Internet Options -> General tab -> Browsing history: Settings
>
> It's right there. Note that I am *NOT* the type that likes to handhold
> children to guide them around when they could go look for themselves.
> Expend some effort to look before asking.
>
>> I certainly could get CC Cleaner (I think I have an older version on my
>> pc, but I would like to eliminate my problem before resorting to
>> additional programs.
>
> Since it is free, I'd suggest downloading and installing the latest
> version
> of CCleaner.
>
>> I am a stanalone user with a non-networked pc.
>
> If this is a standalone host (which means it is not networked), why do
> you
> care about some "history". You can't create any history because you
> cannot
> connect anywhere.
>
>> I am
>> not running in a sandbox, and my security setting is Zonealarm, and
>> Norton
>> Antivirus; pretty standard.
>
> I'm not personally familiar with those security programs. As an
> example,
> some security software will use a sandbox without telling you, like
> Comodo's
> firewall which uses a sandbox for unknown apps (or those you put into a
> list
> to get sandboxed). It's the same sandbox for all those unknown or
> listed
> apps and it doesn't get cleared out. Every time you re-run those same
> apps
> in the sandbox, they can get at their same data inside that sandbox,
> like
> the isolated copy of the TIF folder for a web browser. So you see the
> history when you run the app because it is inside the sandbox where it
> can
> get at the old data left inside that sandbox. Some sandboxes will
> automatically purge all their data (because the sandbox gets destroyed
> and
> then created anew each time) while some don't let you do the cleanup or
> make
> you do it manually.
>
> You could disable or uninstall those programs to then retest if the
> history
> is getting retained for the web browser. However, before doing that,
> simply
> reboot into Windows' Safe Mode (with networking) to see if history is
> getting retained across separate sessions of the web browser.
>
> By the way, when you think you have exited the web browser, have you
> unloaded ALL instances of it? When you think you have exited all
> instances
> of the web browser, go into the Processes tab in Task Manager to check
> if
> there are any remnant processes for the web browser. For IE, look for
> iexplore.exe. It's possible that a copy of the web browser is being
> left
> loaded in memory. The history cleanup occurs with the LAST instance of
> the
> web browser gets exited.
>
>> The history I speak of consists of a list of favorites and their
>> addresses
>> recently visited, favorite sites on the left, and site addresses on the
>> right, with a down arrow on the top right, which, when clicked on,
>> reveals
>> a lot more favorites listed as above, most not visited recently. On
>> older
>> IE versions, once you clicked "delete browsing history," it was gone!
>> Now
>> there are these residual sites which leave a lot more information than
>> is
>> wanted. Before going to CC Cleaner, please help me locate my TIF folder
>> and let me know if my elaboration of the problem has given you any
>> additional hints. Thanks again.
>
> That history has nothing to do with the contents of the TIF folder.
> What
> you describe is not a history at all. It is a search through your
> Favorites
> list to match on what you type. It is a new search feature (which gets
> expanded even further if you have installed Windows Search in Windows XP
> or
> as part of Vista/7).
>
> Internet Options -> Content -> AutoComplete: Settings
>
> If you don't want to see those searched items shown in the drop-down
> list
> for the Address bar in IE8, then don't enable the sub-options under
> "Address
> Bar". The "Browsing History" should disappear after the retention you
> configured for browsing history. If you don't want to see items in the
> drop-down list from your Favorites list show up here, then uncheck the
> "Favorites" sub-option. If you have Windows Search installed on your
> host
> but don't want to see those entries, uncheck the "Use Windows Search for
> better results" sub-option.
