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How to delete IE addressbar history on Vista/Win7?


First, here is a picture of what I see http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4797/iedrop.png

I need an solution to clear addressbar dropdawn, but not using ClearMyTracksByProcess or IE dialogs. I need to delete only a specific URL and all his traces.

I deleted manually all traces of that URL in:

  1. Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files*
  2. Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History*
  3. Users\\Recent*

also that URL can be found in:

4) Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\High

Now I made an BootTime program that searches for 8 and 16 bit charsets string in all my system disc files. URL wasn't found anywhere, but after logging and starting IE, the URL is still there. I suspect this is related to 4), but can't understand how.


Solution

  • Finally I found solution.

    HRESULT CreateCatalogManager(ISearchCatalogManager **ppSearchCatalogManager)
    {
        *ppSearchCatalogManager = NULL;
    
        ISearchManager *pSearchManager;
        HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_CSearchManager, NULL, CLSCTX_SERVER, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pSearchManager));
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            hr = pSearchManager->GetCatalog(L"SystemIndex", ppSearchCatalogManager);
            pSearchManager->Release();
        }
        return hr;
    }
    
    {
    
        ISearchCatalogManager *pCatalogManager;
        HRESULT hr = CreateCatalogManager(&pCatalogManager);
    
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            pCatalogManager->Reset();
            pCatalogManager->Release();
        }
    }