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Old 02-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
Marco Shaw
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Accessing IE7 history

How is the history in IE7 stored? It's easy to look through the favorites
(via the favorites folder, d'uh!), but is the history stored in the registry
or elsewhere?

Marco



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Old 02-16-2007   #2 (permalink)
Marco Shaw
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Re: Accessing IE7 history

Looks like it comes down to going into:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings

I can't seem to make PSH change into that dir... Any ideas?

"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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> How is the history in IE7 stored? It's easy to look through the favorites
> (via the favorites folder, d'uh!), but is the history stored in the
> registry or elsewhere?
>
> Marco
>



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Old 02-16-2007   #3 (permalink)
Keith Hill [MVP]
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Re: Accessing IE7 history

"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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> Looks like it comes down to going into:
> C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings
>
> I can't seem to make PSH change into that dir... Any ideas?


It will CD into that dir but you won't get tab completion on the name since
it is hidden. Try this:

cd "$home\local settings"

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Keith


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Old 02-16-2007   #4 (permalink)
Marco Shaw
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Re: Accessing IE7 history

> cd "$home\local settings"

That helped, but I just hit another blockage:

[C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\History]
175> dir
[C:\Documents and Settings\ma36788\Local Settings\History]
176>

It ain't regular files in there...

Marco


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Old 02-16-2007   #5 (permalink)
Keith Hill
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Re: Accessing IE7 history

"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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>> cd "$home\local settings"

>
> That helped, but I just hit another blockage:
>
> [C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\History]
> 175> dir
> [C:\Documents and Settings\ma36788\Local Settings\History]
> 176>
>
> It ain't regular files in there...


Use the -force parameter on Get-ChildItem to display hidden files.

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Keith

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