Highlighting visted links

[Hoklai]

I like how IE 6 highlights the links I've visited already on a webpage. Does
anyone know how far back into the webpage history IE actually looks? I had
the history set to 999 days, but it seems to go back maybe 3-4 weeks at the
most. Webpages in my history beyond that point are not being highlighted. I'd
like to know the exact number of days IE will highlight a visited webpage,
and whether or not that number can be adjusted via a registry setting or
something.

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
I don't know the answer to your "visited links" question, but the
conventional wisdom is that something like 20 or 30 days is a safe,
reasonable setting for History retention. Larger History folders seem to be
more prone to corruption.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Post by Hoklai
I like how IE 6 highlights the links I've visited already on a webpage. Does
anyone know how far back into the webpage history IE actually looks? I had
the history set to 999 days, but it seems to go back maybe 3-4 weeks at the
most. Webpages in my history beyond that point are not being highlighted. I'd
like to know the exact number of days IE will highlight a visited webpage,
and whether or not that number can be adjusted via a registry setting or
something.

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

(And there's no way the machine has enough memory to maintain 999 days worth
of History...or the TIF folder it would depend on.)

Post by Don Varnau
Hi,
I don't know the answer to your "visited links" question, but the
conventional wisdom is that something like 20 or 30 days is a safe,
reasonable setting for History retention. Larger History folders seem to be
more prone to corruption.
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Post by Hoklai
I like how IE 6 highlights the links I've visited already on a webpage.
Does anyone know how far back into the webpage history IE actually looks?
I had the history set to 999 days, but it seems to go back maybe 3-4
weeks
at the most. Webpages in my history beyond that point are not being
highlighted. I'd like to know the exact number of days IE will highlight
a
visited webpage, and whether or not that number can be adjusted via a
registry setting or something.

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Post by Hoklai
I like how IE 6 highlights the links I've visited already on a webpage. Does
anyone know how far back into the webpage history IE actually looks?
I had the history set to 999 days, but it seems to go back maybe 3-4 weeks at the most.

How do you know you have a controlled enough case to test anything
greater?

Post by Hoklai
Webpages in my history beyond that point are not being highlighted.

Do you use the Accessibility option to ignore coloring?
If not you probably don't have a good sample set.

Post by Hoklai
I'd like to know the exact number of days IE will highlight a visited webpage,
and whether or not that number can be adjusted via a registry setting or
something.

As PA Bear indicated it will probably depend on an implementation limit
as well as whatever you indicate as a limit in days.

You would have to have a machine set up to visit two pages,
one which links to the other and which does not supply its own
coloring or which you could see using the Accessibility option
that you had previously visited. Then leave that machine untouched
for serveral months. Provided the page in question still linked
to the other one you would then know whether there was really
a time limit involved but my guess is that there would not be.

BTW I don't think that the TIF is involved but that fact would
also be easily verified empirically.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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