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Francis Asis | 15:05 Sun 06th Apr 2008 | Technology
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I recently had a virus and had to reinstall windows XP. Since then every time I close Internet Explorer it wipes the history clean. Is there an option somewhere to change this as I want to keep my history. I've been throught all the internet options I can find . I found one that was something like "empty history when closing explorer" and unchecked that but it has made no difference.
Any help appreciated.
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In Internet Explorer:-

Tools

Internet Options (bottom of pull down menu)

Click on the "General" Tab and look for the second item - Browsing History, then click on "Settings"

Days to keep pages in history (right down at the bottom of the screen) - presumably this is set to 0 or 1 at the moment - just adjust to whatever you want (maximum 999 days)
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Thank you. I have tried this. It is set to 20. I tried adjusting it to 14 in case it was 0 and was lying to me but it made no difference.
That is odd, Francis.... now where are the computer experts on here ? I shall try to find out for you in the meantime...
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Thank you, I appreciate that.
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Jugglering - i just had a flash in inspriation and I was right. It was a setting in my Anti-Virus/Firewall software called "Privacy Manager". It has a setting to wipe everything when IE closes.
Mystery solved. Thanks for your help.
No,, thank you for posting the solution back here,,, I was still hunting around in various places lol... Glad you found out what was causing it and letting us all know !

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