Problems with IE URL window

[AlanHo]

The drop down window in IE7 where you type the URL no longer retains previous entries - it is totally blank.

I used to be able to click the arrow at the end of the little window where you type a URL and a drop down panel would open showing all previous typed entries.

It now opens as a blank white rectangle.

Is there some setting I have disturbed and how do I get it back?

[-pops-]

Remember that IE7 is not yet in its final version. Are you using a Beta or the recent RC?

Do you use Ccleaner (or anything similar)? These programs clear out the histories of sites in the address field unless you instruct it not to.

Perhaps I am odd in my Internet use but I never use that box now. All web sites that I link to are connected either from Bookmarks/Favorites or located from a Google search. Even sites I'm familiar with (but which aren't in bookmarks) are brought up in this way. The reason I do this is because it is so easy to make a tiny slip in the typing of an address which will result in a failure to link to the required site and as some addresses are extremely long, a mistake in the typing is highly likely.

[andsome]

Same here.

[AlanHo]

I have resolved my problem.

Quite by accident I discovered that buried in the bowels of my Telewest Blueyonder security package, is a setting which automatically removes all traces of your surfing each time you close Internet Explorer. I have unticked this item and all is now back to normal.

[djohn]

Me too, I stick my forums on the IE toolbar then everything else is from favs or google uk which is my homepage. I'm at that stage like pops where I go to hit one key and end up headbutting 5 or 6.