From time to time I seem to lose all IE History; nothing to do with the "days to keep..." since it can lose history from even moments before. It seems to happen when I try to change the 'View' criteria from the default 'by date'. I suddenly find that the history I had been looking at moments before has vanished. It's no longer in the History folder either.

I'm using IE6 in WinXP Home SP2.

Has anyone come across this?

Regards, Johngie

IE History clears itself out after 30 days. Haven't really investigated configuring this. I get users who use their histories as their link page. Then one day they're all gone. I tell them about the settings and advise them to use bookmarks instead history.

I don't think it's anything to do with the age of the history; sometimes I'm losing history of sites visited only minutes before. It does seem to be connected to changing the History Sort.

Johngie

Maybe there are errors in your windows installation. Or just IE, in which you could just reinstall sp2.

Check your %systemroot%\Setuperr.log and see if there's anything there.