2nd March 2001
"La dee da... I'm surfing the Web. Nobody's looking... so I think I'll enter a forbidden URL and see what's there. N A K E D G E R B I L S dot com. Wow... that's furry!" Little Brian is having fun, but what if his hamster (Harvey) finds out about this adventure? It won't be pretty -- but the damage has been done! The Web address is stuck in the Address bar drop-down menu. Uh oh. If Brian clears the History and Cache, his hamster will become suspicious. Is there another way to save Brian's relationship? Yep, but it requires diving into the system registry. Open REGEDIT.EXE and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ TypedURLs (Windows 2000 users will go to HKEY_USERS \ S-1-5-21... \ Software \ Microsoft\ Internet Explorer \ TypedURLs). In the right-hand pane, you'll be able to select and delete any incriminating URLs. NOTE: the site and its contents may be removed by opening the History panel in Internet Explorer, right-clicking on the site's domain, and selecting the "Delete" option. I'll be your guinea pig. Er, let me be your hog. Baby, baby, baby, baby...