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<me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Is there not some other way? My friend is reluctant to mess with the
> registry.
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:07:14 GMT, me@privacy.net wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:39:55 GMT, "Bruce Hendry" <bruce@binya.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I bill by the hour...
>>>
>>>"Milamber³" <milamber@email.com> wrote in message
>>>news:41e80653$0$36639$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>>>> Or if you delete url6 rename the last url to url6 - might save a bit of
>>>> time
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shiv
>>>> "Bruce Hendry" <bruce@binya.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:yURFd.17612$iC4.12846@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>>>>> Hi Colin,
>>>>>
>>>>> One way to selectively delete an url is via the registry at
>>>>> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs".
>>>>>
>>>>> You'll see your URL history named consecutively, url1, url2, etc. If
>>>>> you
>>>>> remove an url and break the chronology I think IE will only show urls
>>>>> up
>>>>> to the break, so you'll want to rename them if you're trying to keep
>>>>> the
>>>>> remaining urls in the history after your deletion, i.e., if I delete
>>>>> url6
>>>>> then I would want to rename url7 to url6, url8 to url7, etc. Maybe
>>>>> not
>>>>> the simplest approach but it will work.
>>>>>
>>>>> <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news
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>>>>>> Behind the address window in IE there are the various addresses one
>>>>>> has visited. How can you selectively delete some of them?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>Fascinating stuff and very instructive. However, the info really was
>>for an Indian friend of mine and I would hesitate to let him loose on
>>the registry. he seems happy to have deleted everything, but I might
>>use it sometime. many thanks
>>
>>Colin
>