AntiHisto A utility to edit IE URL history
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editor edit edit URL IE-URL history History Manager history editor URL history delete URL history typed URL history

AntiHisto Description

The AntiHisto application was developed to be a small utility to edit IE URL history.Do you share a computer with someone? Have you ever visited a URL that you're not exactly proud of? Wish you could delete it from the Internet Explorer history list? Well sit back and crack open a beer, because let me tell you, your troubles are over! This amazing application allows you to edit and remove those tell-tale Internet Explorer history items! As powerful and amazing as this might sound, you do not need to be a blackbelt MSCE to do this. In reality, this application is basically a viewer into a very small part of the registry. While beginners might find it useful to see how the list control editing and sneaky key interception is done, the code itself is very simple; there are no advanced or ground-breaking techniques here. I just thought I'd share this amazing utility with the world - free of charge! It reads the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs registry key. This is where the IE history list for the current user is stored. Note that this is the IE drop-down history, not the auto-complete history (I couldn't find the auto-complete history anywhere in the registry). After reading them, the strings are placed into a list control (CListCtrl) and the user is allowed to edit the strings and mark them as deleted. When the user quits, it writes the new list back to the registry. Apparently, IE only reads this list from the registry when it starts, and writes this list when it exits; so you will have to shut down IE to use this (or this and IE will overwrite each other's URL list).

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