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Re: Windows History Files..

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Subject: Re: Windows History Files..
From: Fargo Holiday <fargo at rpgportland dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:58:07 -0800
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Ok, I finally got a chance to sit down and look at it.
When you view the History folder, normally an explorer component notes 
the special folder status and loads the history panel instead of showing 
you the contents of the actual folder. Copy the history folder someplace 
else, and you can view its real contents. There's a file called 
History.IE5, which is just a zipped file, and as I suspected, the 
index.dat contains the actual history.

So, you should be able to extract that file, and parse it, via 
<profile>\local settings\history\history.ie5, which _should_ be the 
actual file. If Windows continues to give you grief about it there may 
be some other steps you'll need to take.

Good luck,
Fargo
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