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If one uses their history in IE9 32-bit, you might have problems with the sites visited may not record in the history properly. I did post in the IE forums but no luck for a resolution. I was hoping someone else would test their history to see if it’s recording properly. Others, altough not many, seem to be experencing the same problem as me. I have not yet found a solution.

Below are some links describing the problem I’m having too.

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread//138835-IE-9-missing-URL-s-in-history

http://superuser.com/questions/294191/cannot-view-browser-history-in-ie9

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ieitprocurrentver/thread/98bd703a-55be-41a5-b9be-8de7812d8bde/

So, it could be I have a mangled install, unlikely, or there is a problem with IE 9 history that has not been fully exposed.

Thanks,

Geoff

Thanks for the reply Joe,

I only use the 32-bit of IE9. Only tested 64-bit to determine history issues, which persist.

Well it looks like a reinstall is in order.

Geoff

To follow-up, I just test IE 9 64-bit and loaded 4 or 5 separate web sites and experienced the same behavior of the sites not appearing in the history folder although a few of the sites visited earlier today do show-up in both.

I am really trying to confirm that no one else is experiencing this problem before I jump thru the hoops of uninstall, reinstall, etc.

Just call me lazy (I mean too busy on business tasks).

Geoff

Hi Joe,

Have been running only 32-bit version, and have not run or tested the 64-bit version for any problems.

I will test the 64-bit to see if any difference.

Thanks for the pointer.

Geoff

Am familiar with CC Cleaner and have not run it in the affected machine. It is not as if the URL’s are being erased, they are not showing up in the history. If I go to three separate sites, some or none appear in the history immediately after the visits. Throughout the day, I generally visit many sites but only a few are listed for the day. One would think it’s too simple, visit a site or sites, check history, are they in the list? For me no.

The question is are others unaware that there histories are not complete since they do not check and would not notice. Or on the contrary, the history is working fine and mine is broken for whatever reason.

Has anyone else noticed that their histories are not complete in IE9 Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

(Was having a problem in Quickbooks where an email link was automatically added to any invoice created even though the default check box was not selected for this. In other words, the checkbox was not staying checked from restarts of Quickbooks. Spent much time searching the internet and others were experiencing similar problems, tracked down and monitored QB ini files to troubleshoot. Finally, Inutuit admitted the problem and pushed a fix.)

So, rather than spending much time troubleshooting the problem as I did with QB above, I was trying to get a consensus whether other’s histories in IE 9 are working properly and if not then IE 9 might have a problem; otherwise I might have a corrupt install.

Am liking IE9’s interface and speed, but can roll it back, reinstall IE9, use Chrome, etc, but would like to know if anyone else has noticed a problem with the histories IE9.

Thanks again for an insight.

Geoff

In answer to:
#5 Geoff Holcomb

I have had numerous networking and Remote Access issues with my Windows XP, SP3 laptop ever since the botched MS Update MS10-021 (KB 979683) tried to install itself back in April of this year. It was reoffered over and over again, and after a chat session and phone support, I was told to uncheck the update, and tell MS Updates never to show me the update again. My hardware proved to be incompatible with this Windows kernel-level security patch, and it somehow messed up Network Connections. The patch unfortunately can not be removed last I heard, so I am stuck with a laptop which does not do Remote Desktop anymore, and has some other networking issues.

So perhaps it is not the Vista machine which is causing the problem, but the Windows XP computer, especially if it has rather old hardware or out of date drivers. Even if there were no problems updating the Wondows XP machine, it may have been altered by the update I mentioned, or by the IE8 rollup, or the ActiveX Killbits patches. Otherwise, more investigation may be needed.

I also read at https://www.askwoody.com about at least one Vista patch which has had similar unwanted consequences. Check out the June Black Tuesday writeup over there and the Comments for more details.

Thanks for the response, much appreciated. Your right about the Win XP being a possible part of the problem since I still can Remote Desktop into our Windows Home Server 2008 machine when I can’t access the WinXP machine with Remote Desktop after the updates are run. However, the printer and scanner are on our intranet and are not being controlled by the WinXP machine and I cannot access those after the update(s) too. Also, since the WinXP machine works fine prior to the update on the Vista machine suggests that the problem is in the update(s). I can roll back using system restore after the updates and all works fine. I will try to determine which of the updates do break the system and do some additional research.

Thanks again,

Geoff

I would like to express my gratitude to Susan for her info on keeping our systems updated. I have run into a problem installing the latest patches referenced in your recent article. I have been trying to isolate the update that’s causing my problem which is in Vista SP2. Whenever I run the updates, I can no longer Remote Desktop to our office network system running Windows XP SP3, complete a scan using Windows built-in scanner on our network connected Brother Scanner Printer, and cannot print to this printer too. All of the programs start normally, but as soon as it appears to make the actual connection to each of these devices, the programs hang. So, I rolled back the system using system restore to prior to the updates and voila everything works as expected. Although I have not tried installing all of these updates one at a time and test, I did the ActiveX Killbits (KB980195) and the system failed as above, performed a system restore and works. So I tried the IE 8 update (KB982381) and the system failed, and again system restored and works. So, I’m thinking maybe something else is in the update that Microsoft offered that is an update to the update process or something without explanation. To test this I ran the Malicious Software Tool Removal Tool – June 2010 and the system worked after this update. With 7 of these updates all fixing the same issue of a remote attacker, I’m wondering if they might each contain the code that breaks my system.

The other updates are the two .NET 3.5 SP1 (KB979910 and KB982536), and three Security Updates (KB979482, KB979559, KB980218).

Since I’m getting to ready to leave the office now and won’t be able to troubleshoot further until Monday, I was hoping that someone may also have the same problems and a possible solution.

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Geoff