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Summary: While you can't configure Internet Explorer to keep your History forever, you can configure it to last almost three years.

Is there anyway I can make Internet Explorer keep history forever?

No, not really. You can configure it for a maximum of 999 days, though. That's almost three years, which is pretty much "forever" in internet time. Hit the Tools menu, Internet Options, and on the General tab there's a section for History. The default setting is 20 but you can erase that and type in 999 if you like.

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Article C2068 - June 17, 2004

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6 Comments

Is there a waya to save IE history as a file on my computer and where would i go to do this if i can ,i have XP PRO.
I have read all the articles here and this doesn't seem to addressed directly and also seems to hold true for the my favorites which seems to have disappeared also.

Posted by: STAN at April 30, 2006 8:32 AM

Every time I close history is erased. I want to keep the history at least for 24 hours.

Posted by: James Briggs at October 22, 2007 9:40 PM

I want to do this save also -- when ir crashes the history is lost on install.
Found this software that might work for us: Joe

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/belkaieextractor.html

Posted by: fluffy Melisky at June 7, 2008 7:08 AM

If the internet browsing history has been deleted, would I still able to know what websites i visited in the past?

Posted by: CS at January 14, 2009 3:15 PM

i have the same issue, my history doesn't save when i close explorer any way to remedy this?

Posted by: KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!1 at February 3, 2009 4:25 AM

I would like to know if deleted visited websites can be retrieved as well. My history only goes for 60 days.

Posted by: Josh Jaggers at February 7, 2009 8:44 PM

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