Prevent caching of local browsing

All. I have an annoying problem. I use my Vista PC for image editing and organization. I browse to these files quite often, and they are arranged in a very hierarchical directory structure with folders on top of folders to keep everything nice and neat.

Many times, I will need to perform an edit that I require assistance from the internet on. So I fireup my trusty browser, drop down what I expect to be the internet browsing history to visit a trusty resource that I recently visited, only to find that my @#%@^%ing local browsing history has almost completely populated this list. Check it out:



I have been desperately searching for a solution to this problem for almost 2 years now, and NOBODY seems to know how to separate local file system browsing from Internet Explorer browsing. Does Vista Forums? I might have even asked this question before here. I have searched many forums for "local browsing IE7" or "no local browsing cache" or "delete local browsing history". I know you can vaporize this by simply clearing the browser history, but regardless of MS insistence, IE is not explorer.exe, and I don't understand why they tried to make it so in this respect.

I want to use Explorer for local browsing and IE for the internet. Are there 3rd party file system browsers available for Windows that WON'T cache local browsing? There MUST be away to prevent this from happening. I'm losing my @#$@ing mind over this

I have the same issue. I have looked high and low for an answer and I hope someone here can supply the answer.

Does anyone know a Microsoft run forum that could give an answer to this question?

Have you tried asking on MaxThon forum? I'm wondering if it uses a separate cache or perhaps there's an addon for it to force it to. It has many user-written addons like Firefox, but uses the IE engine.

I haven't used it in several years but it's definitely way ahead of plain IE. It's had tabbed browsing for years.

use in private browsing.

I had high hopes for "in private browsing", but alas - after researching what it is, that completely misses the freaking point. I do not want LOCAL FILE SYSTEM BROWSING to appear in my Internet Exploder drop down. I know how to use other browsers. This primarily affects my wife as I can slide from browser to browser without issue, but it annoys the @#it out of me. Anyone have any *relevant* suggestions?