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  1. Apr 23rd, 2000, 12:57 PM #1
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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.
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  2. Apr 23rd, 2000, 02:53 PM #2
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    Well, The History is under Windows\History\ Just delete the contents of the folder. Look for yourself. Similarly, look under Windows\Recent\

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  3. Apr 23rd, 2000, 03:05 PM #3
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    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!

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  4. Feb 7th, 2001, 10:28 PM #4
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