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API Guru's,
Does anyone have some information on API calls to do things such as...
Clear Find History
Clear Run History
Clear Telnet History
Clear IE History
etc... Sort of like a Windows Anonymizer that runs at boot up and wipes all the previous history. I have TweakUI the Control Panel applet which can do this but I want to make my own version of this similar program
Any help/ideas are welcome.
Well, The History is under Windows\History\ Just delete the contents of the folder. Look for yourself. Similarly, look under Windows\Recent\
bob
Well, as far as I know - a simple API call won't do the trick for you. For example, the Run "Most Recently Used" entries are stored in the registry...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RunMRU
(I'm not sure if it's the same on your computer, but my assumption is Windows is Windows, so it should be the same)... I also found that the Find MRU was also located in the registry...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Doc Find Spec MRU
If you mess around with dummy values for a search - (Do something "far out" so that the value will show up once - and that is in the MRU). It's actually rather intelligent how they keep track of order and the like...Just don't mess anything up in there... :)
Bob told you about the Recent Documents and IE History...As for the Telnet one, it's getting late (3:00a - early?) - if you search your computer hard enough you'll find what you're looking for. Just create and look for the most bizarre values - they'll show up somewhere...
Good Luck!
Cougar
Just for your knowladge: Windows isn't Windows
NT, 2000, ME, 9X, and 3.X are all windows, but no two are the same. 3.X and the rest are really different. The other 3 have minor differances, but they are still there. ME and 9X vs NT and 2K have differnt desktops, start menus, and other things.
Do you really think Microsnot would be nice enough to make them all the same?
I know I put Microsnot instead of Microsoft.