How IE Favorites and History are stored on a Windows system

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Ken and Xavier,

Thanks a lot for your clues.
It seems that I have to go in a tricky way to achieve this...
Stay tuned: sure, I'll have other questions when going ahead ;-)

Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet

Le 15 févr. 06 à 19:18, Ken Ray a écrit :

> On 2/15/06 8:57 AM, "Eric Chatonet"  
> <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com>
> 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: kray at sonsothunder.com

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