[RESOLVED] Clear History - IE

The windows server administrator has disabled the clear history button on my Internet Explorer Settings.

I access IE from the Citrix Terminal Server. How do I clear history?

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Not sure if it would help but how about trying this?

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Originally Posted by dee-u

Not sure if it would help but how about trying this?

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That requires the .NET runtime to be installed. The Citrix Terminal Server doesn't have the framework on there.

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Can you manually delete the history folder?

Can you install CCleaner?

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Originally Posted by vbcode1980

Can you install CCleaner?

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I don't have privs required to install anything on the server. I can however, copy an executable and run it.

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Originally Posted by abhijit

I don't have privs required to install anything on the server. I can however, copy an executable and run it.

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pretty weak security. our 2003 server would refuse to rename a file to an executable extension.

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Originally Posted by Lord Orwell

pretty weak security. our 2003 server would refuse to rename a file to an executable extension.

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that's only cos i happen to have developer privs. i can do this only on the development servers. i also have to compile executables, before they are deployed to the rest of the farm.

the deployment is done by the members of the server admin team.

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Originally Posted by abhijit

I don't have privs required to install anything on the server. I can however, copy an executable and run it.

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The CCleaner application is just one executable.
But it's possible of course that it needs Admin privileges to clear out the history folder.

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Originally Posted by vbcode1980

Can you install CCleaner?

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Originally Posted by vbcode1980

The CCleaner application is just one executable.
But it's possible of course that it needs Admin privileges to clear out the history folder.

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The CC cleaner runs a setup process. I installed it locally and then copied the executable over to citrix. It seems to have done the trick of erasing history.

Thank You Folks.
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there's another setting in IE they may not have disabled. You can set it into "privacy" mode in which it won't ever record the history in the first place. I believe it's a keyboard shortcut that enters that mode. You can tell when you're in it because it tells you so in the address bar. I accidently did it yesterday.

I thought that feature was only available in IE 8?

i am not sure. I have 8 installed.