re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:38 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) Reg key to grey out Clear History. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel If you get to the Microsoft key folder and don't see keys for Internet Explorer\Control Panel, you'll need to add Internet Explorer as a subkey of Microsoft and Control Panel as a subkey of Internet Explorer. Go into the Control Panel key folder and create a new DWORD value (REG_DWORD). Name it History. Right-click the History value and choose Modify. Change the data from 0 to 1. Written in response to: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (RW: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 11:59 pm) Responses to this message: re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (RW: Monday, February 26, 2007 at 12:47 am) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Peter: Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:47 am) All messages in this thread [show all] How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (RW: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 11:59 pm) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Larry: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 6:53 am) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (RW: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 11:54 am) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Steve: Sun, Feb 25, 2007, 1:38 pm) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (RW: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 12:47 am) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Steve: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 9:23 pm) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (William Ryan: Fri, Sep 21, 2007, 12:03 pm) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Steve: Fri, Sep 21, 2007, 2:22 pm) re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? (Peter: Sat, Nov 17, 2007, 1:47 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum