Q: I just noticed this problem today. My IE history is empty, except for today, and in my auto-login did not work. The stranger is that I always have my computer to sleep, is not the problem at startup / shutdown. IE is set to save history for 20 days and accept all cookies. I have installed SP2. Any idea what could be wrong?
Best Answer: go to www.snapfiles.com–freeware section–Internet cleanup tools–download the program IE Privacy Keeper
this program can be set to clean open/save history,run history,recent documents, flash cookies,Internet explorer history etc
here are instructions on how to set program up.
INSTRUCTIONS
IE PRIVACY KEEPER
1. CLICK ICON ON DESK TOP.
2. ALL THE BOX’S WILL BE CHECKED FOR YOU ALREADY, JUST CLICK THE CLEAN UP NOW BUTTON.
3. THEN CLICK THE BUTTON THAT SAYS SYSTEM AT THE TOP, AND AGAIN CLICK THE CLEAN UP NOW BUTTON (AGAIN ALL THE BOX’X WILL BE CHECKED FOE YOU)
4. CLICKS OK WHEN YOU’RE DONE, THIS CLOSE’S PROGRAM.
THIS PROGRAM CLEANS UP ALL YOUR COOKIE’S, TEMPORARY FILES, TEMPORARY HISTORY, CACHE FILES, EMPTY’S RECYCLE BIN, IN GENERAL KEEPS COMPUTER CLEAN.
IF FOR SOME REASON THERE IS A SITE THAT YOU DON’T WANT CLEANED JUST PUT A CHECK MARK IN BOX KEEP SELECTIVE ENTRIES AND THIS WILL KEEP PROGRAM FROM CLEANING THE HISTORY ON THAT SITE.
ALSO IF YOU WANT IS TO CLEAN ANY PROGRAM SUCH AS MEDIA PLAYER, REAL PLAYER, WORD, WIN ZIP, ACROBAT READER JUST PUT CHECK MARKS IN THESE BOXES AND THEY WILL BE CLEANED.
MOST OF THE TIME RUNNING THIS PROGRAM KEEPS COMPUTER REAL CLEAN AND YOU SHOULD ONLY NEED TO RUN DISK CLEANUP ONCE EVER COUPLE ON MONTHS
Re:Still having this problem. Any other ideas?
Re:Hmm..problem is starting again. It seems like my Temporary Internet Files are getting deleted very often (I watched them disappear when I was looking in the Temporary Internet Files). Any more ideas?
Re:Ok it seems to have fixed itself. I did a virus scan and removed a virus and now the problem is gone. Thanks for all your ideas.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Umm, by running Ad Aware and other spyware programs, you actually are getting rid of the cookies yourself. Ad Aware recognizes all cookies as a type of spyware, and so it gets rid of them. Try NOT running spyware programs for a while…
I haven't run anti-spyware programs for a few days and the problem happens every day. What's going on?
Re:Umm, by running Ad Aware and other spyware programs, you actually are getting rid of the cookies yourself. Ad Aware recognizes all cookies as a type of spyware, and so it gets rid of them. Try NOT running spyware programs for a while…
Re:Originally posted by: guy
how do I do a reinstall or check installation?
the 'edit the registry' one at the end:
http://support.microsoft.com/d…?scid=kb;EN-US;q318378 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q318378)
installing sp2 might fix it as well…(or make things worse 
Re:how do I do a reinstall or check installation?
Re:could installing SP2 possibly help?
Re:try moving the location of the temporary internet files folder in Internet Options. bump up the space allotted..
maybe do a reinstall / check installation….
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Well, the AT auto-login issue is explainable. AT just went through a major forum upgrade over the weekend. Everyone was forced to re-login.
Ok that explains part of it. However, my internet explorer history is still being erased every day. Any ideas how to fix this?
Re:Well, the AT auto-login issue is explainable. AT just went through a major forum upgrade over the weekend. Everyone was forced to re-login.
Re:in response to guy's questions:
23GB free
only me
I don't think there's any spyware…I use Adaware and Spybot regularly.
Re:is your hard drive close to full? sometimes that can screw up the cookies/cache…
does anyone else use the computer? like a little brother that visits questionable sites and is hiding the tracks?
checked for spyware?
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