On 2/15/06 8:57 AM, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Even if I work on both Mac and Win, I'm rather a Mac man. > At the moment I'm puzzled with Win :-( > I want to retrieve all IE favorites and history from a user on XP AND > Win 2000. > I found something about favorites, a .ini file as in: > > [InternetShortcut] > URL= http:// www...... > WorkingDirectory=C:\.... > ShowCommand=7 > IconIndex=1 > etc. > > But I have no idea about the internal method used for storing history? > Sure there is someone around there who can help me :-) Favorites are stored in the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Favorites and are a series of internet shortcuts or folders. History is tricky - on Windows XP it's stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5 in a file called "index.dat". The "History.IE5" folder is hidden, and you can't navigate to it from the nromal interface (you end up getting the shortcuts for "2 weeks ago", "3 weeks ago", etc.). In addition to the "index.dat" file, there are a bunch of folders, and the "index.dat" file itself is mostly binary (although you can see most of the urls). What I did was go to the directory in the shell, and then do a "copy" command to copy the file to somewhere more accessible (like C:). I also didn't know if you needed this info, but the "typed urls" (the ones that are auto-completed and show up in the dropdown menu from the Location field) are stored in the Registry at: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
