Cleaning the Registry
- Posted by Ed Wall <edwall6634 at msn.com> Aug 10, 2005
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I've written a batch file that cleans my registry, and another that I run through the autoexec that cleans up windows other messes. I've also written a Euphoria program that does the same and a little more. I think i've been able to clean up just about everything except the search history in the drop-down address bar. I am using windows 98se, I have 2000 but can't get it to install on my old NEC Pentium II computer without flashing the BIOS. I don't know how to do that, and I don't want to pay someone to do it for me. Some day I may become confident enough to give it a try, but for now i'm just sticking with what i've got. Can some one tell me where to find the address bar seach history in the system registry (if that's what it's called)? I can't find it, well, not all of it. What key(s) to delete and what not to delete? You know, when I click the drop down arrow, i get nothing, thats good, but when I place an r in the address bar I get every web site i've visited that begins with r, like rapideuphoria, or any other key, a, b, c, etc. Where is it? I've looked in hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\ internet explorer\explorer bars, and every where else I could think of, but I don't know what i'm looking at in there. It's coded somehow I guess like MS Word, but Word has away to stop storing the recent docs list in the application itself? Explain? Anyone? Thanks, Bill