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by tareed

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On the pulldown address bar in IE 5.5 Sp1 I have all the sites I visit on a daily basis. However once a week all of them disappear. They are of course in my history folder but not on the pulldown menu. It just goes blank and I have to start over again. After this happened a couple of times I changed the setting in my history to keep all items for a year and still no luck. This is probably something simple I have overlooked but it's frustrating. My OS is Win95. Any suggestions much appreciated.

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by jseay

Good morning. The problem seems to me to be an weekly automatic update of IE 5.5, with the option of updating the favorites turned on. Although I didn't know it until I studied for my IEAK exam, IE can be configured in a variety of ways, one of them is the automatic configuration of just about everything in IE, including the IE favorite list. This also includes updates, and my guess would be that once a week, the update changes your favorite list back to it's original state, which is blank.
As for a solution, the one that comes to mind for me would be to download the IEAK and go thru the options. It's pretty time consuming, but doing so would teach you quite a bit about the product and it's many features.

Good luck,
John

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