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by chaspfrank

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I have a problem with several URL's which continue to function in the look-ahead feature of IE Explorer 6.0 with the SP! service pack installed. I have eliminated history and cache files at all levels. It is only 3 websites of dubious origin that do this. I have also run Lavasoft's Addaware, which did detect several programs, but eliminated them. Any ideas?

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by bobho

There is a bug in explorer that does not clean up the entire history. The url history entries can be in multiple locations. Here is a link for a program called spider that can search all of the index.dat files on your hard drive and display the history entries in each, allowing you to remove them if you want. The app is free. I've tried it out and it seems pretty good.

Here's the link:

http://www.fsm.nl/ward/

Enjoy,

DrBob:>)

by chaspfrank

Spider worked!! Thanks for the help. I love the "unintentional" Microsoft bugs. You really have to wonder.

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