IE 7 History Listing Weirdness  
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ehtcpa





PostPosted: Wed Feb 21 15:17:10 CST 2007 Top

Internet Explorer / IE >> IE 7 History Listing Weirdness

I'm responsible for about 150 desktops, and I wanted to periodically audit IE
history on random desktops. I figured I get this info out of a script, so I
went to the VBScript Repository and found the page "List the Items in the
Internet Explorer History Folder", located at
http://www.hide-link.com/

When I run it, I get a list of the time frames, like this:

3 Weeks Ago
2 Weeks Ago
Last Week
Monday
Tuesday
Today

Which is, of course, useless. Has anybody solved this...?

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CoreyFurman





PostPosted: Wed Feb 21 15:17:10 CST 2007 Top

Internet Explorer / IE >> IE 7 History Listing Weirdness I didn't mention, but should have - This behaviour happens in XP and 2003; I
was thinking this was restricted to IE 7, but the same happens in IE 6.
 
 
CoreyFurman





PostPosted: Wed Feb 28 12:25:04 CST 2007 Top

Internet Explorer / IE >> IE 7 History Listing Weirdness Has anybody noticed this?
 
 
Robert





PostPosted: Thu Mar 01 10:44:22 CST 2007 Top

Internet Explorer / IE >> IE 7 History Listing Weirdness

> I'm responsible for about 150 desktops, and I wanted to periodically audit IE
> history on random desktops. I figured I get this info out of a script, so I
> went to the VBScript Repository and found the page "List the Items in the
> Internet Explorer History Folder", located at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/desktop/special/dmspvb19.mspx
>
> When I run it, I get a list of the time frames, like this:
>
> 3 Weeks Ago
> 2 Weeks Ago
> Last Week
> Monday
> Tuesday
> Today
>
> Which is, of course, useless. Has anybody solved this...?


History is a special folder implemented from the data kept in its index.dat
There are third-party programs which may do what you want to do;
otherwise you would have to format the individual index.dat files yourself.
If you just want a list of Visted sites you can do that in a cmd window with:

find /i "Visited:" index.dat

BTW this question has been discussed several times before
with varying amounts of detail. Try a search of Google Groups
which incorporates this new information I'm giving you.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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CoreyFurman





PostPosted: Thu Mar 01 11:18:08 CST 2007 Top

Internet Explorer / IE >> IE 7 History Listing Weirdness I think you may have given me a sufficient answer, thanks. I am aware of the
3rd party tools, but my company won't buy us tools. I just figured I was
doing something wrong.