Is there any way to have Internet Explorer's "history" display
actually become useful--by including the time of access, rather than
just date? And/or by permitting the poor user to sort by time and/or
URL, etc.?

I have a suspicion this is not possible, because Microsoft wouldn't be
that helpful. But there's no harm asking.

This issue is not a desperate one, since I use a great program called
PowerMarks to keep track of bookmarks that really matter (it stores,
sorts, and permits annotation, etc.). But I'm just curious.

(P.S. This is part II. In an earlier question I asked how to make the
history file stop disappearing, and larre-ga answered that well...(In
my case, it turned out to be a matter of space allocation, which
Microsoft has coyly managed to make an issue that the average user
will never be aware of! Ha ha! That company is full of great practical
jokers!)

bbb

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Request for Question Clarification by larre-ga on 06 Jul 2003 18:33 PDT

Hi bbb,

Your suspicion is correct, for the most part anyway. By itself, IE
History can't be fully sorted by date or URL. You -can- sort Today's
History in the order viewed. In the History Bar, select View, then
select By Order Visited Today.

I've located several browser add-on's that take over where the History
Bar leaves off. Would you be interested in these? Some are freeware,
some are shareware with free trial or evaluation, and all add the
functionality you're after.

--- larre

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Clarification of Question by bbb-ga on 06 Jul 2003 22:37 PDT

larre--hello again...
Yes, I would be interested in the programs you mention. 

By the way, PowerMarks is a great and inexpensive utility that does a
good job with bookmarks--letting you sort them, annotate, and
associate them freely with keywords for organized retrieval...

But I'd still like to know about programs you mention, in case there's
a way to actually improve the bookmark facility of Explorer itself.
(Though I doubt it!).

Thanks.
bbb

Terrific! I have several choices for you.


SHAREWARE
----------------------------------------------------------------------

AimAtSite Internet Explorer Toolbar (IE Toolbar)

AimAtSite toolbar "...uses Microsoft Indexing Service to index the
content of Web pages you are visiting to perform fast History and
Favorites search. Unlike the built-in history search tool AimAtSite
provides better performance, sorting by rank or title or date of
visit, pages abstracts and flexible queries."

Free Trial, $14.95 to Register

AimAtSite
http://www.aimingtech.com/aimatsite/home.htm


WebTrack

"WebTrack is a utility which indexes all the words on all the pages
you visit. It's like a personal search engine for the web pages you
view.
WebTrack works independently of the browser, so if you use several
browsers, WebTrack will create an index for all the pages you view
with either browser.

Besides the index, WebTrack offers you the possibility to annotate web
pages and to keep a to-do list of webpages you want to revisit or you
want to use the content of. WebTrack presents this functionality
through a handy icon in the system tray."

Free Download, $14.95 to Register

WebTrack
http://www.officefiler.com/webtrack/index.html


FREEWARE
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ISYS Hindsite

"Index and search previously visited web pages - without bookmarking
them!

You saw something on the web, but you can't remember where, and you
didn't make a bookmark. ISYS:hindsite offers Netscape Navigator and
Internet Explorer users the unique ability to perform full text
searches on the contents of previously accessed web pages."

A friend of mine uses this utility. I was told the installation
routine is one in which you definitely need to obey the "Exit all
other Windows programs" directive. Beyond that, the program works as
promised. Simple registration is required, but the program itself is
free.

ISIS Hindsite Download
http://www.isysdev.com/products/hindsite/


Search Strategy
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Google Search Terms

"browser accessories" ie sort cache OR history
"browser add-on" or sort cache OR history
"browser toolbars" "internet explorer" OR ie


Hopefully, you'll find one of these products will offer the
flexibility you're looking for.

Regards,

--- larre

to larre-ga:
Excellent answer! You found some utilities that look very helpful. I
tried AimAtSite first, since you put it first, and it looked great.
Have not gotten it to work right, but it still looks like a good
program.
I'll let you know what happens, but in any case your research was
excellent.
I'm very sorry about the delay in thanking you & closing this file. (I
began some summer courses in July; that's been cutting into my time.
bbb

Apologies are not required -- summer is its own explanation. :-) Thank
you for the compliments, stars and the generous tip. If you continue
to experience difficulties with AimAtSite, please detail them, and
I'll see if I can provide a solution.

--- l

Well, I'm batting 0 for 2, now. I gave up on AimAtSite for a while and
figured I'd try another one. Hindsite. This one's idiotic in a
different way. After downloading, I opened it and had it index all my
bookmarks. Took about 5 or 6 minutes, I think (I have a lot of
bookmark history). Then I was able to run a search on them, yes.

But the next time(s) I opened Hindsite, the program started indexing
all over again. Not only that, but there is literally no way to halt
that procedure (not to mention to tell it "no need to index all over
again right now."). CAn't do a thing; the indexing just runs. (I've
tried twice, now.)

In fact, even Windows Task Manager was barely able to stop the thing.

So I sent a query to the manufacturer. I cut-&-pasted the address,
from the website, to make sure it was right. But my caution was
waster. That was 100% useless too: Here's the message I got back:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject:	FW: ISYS HindSite Registration.
Sent:	07 - 27 - 03 04:36 AM
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
'support\@isys.com.au' on 07 - 27 - 03 04:36 AM
550 5.1.1 <support\@isys.com.au>... User unknown

Did I do something wrong? 

In any case, this is pathetic. Why is it that so make software makers
are so inept and so out-and-out stupid about communicating that they
can neither organize their material in a logical fashion, nor explain
their programs' operation (or non-operation) in any useful ways?..
while the help I get through Google is so clear?

Anyway, I'm getting nowhere, so far.

Dear bbb-ga,

Re ISYS Hindsite, the correct address for support is
support@isys.com.au (as taken from the wesbite), without the backslash
which somehow inexplicably seems to appear in the address you were
using (support\@isys.com.au).