How to keep history

[DreamMan]

I am having hard time keeping my history on IE6. Usually I can view the history for the time specified in the history settings for a number of days. Suddenly I cannt view history even for a minute ago.

What are the other setting that affect this?

Incidnetally, I noticed that the privacy settings under internet options go back to "custome" each time I close and reopen explorer, even if I set them to default. There seems to be something that sets them back to custome. What could it be? When I set them to default and start working on internet, most of the history is preserved....

I have Win XP with SP1 and IE6 W/SP1 and made sure my computer is free from spyware. The only change to my system was the installation of System Mechanic v4.

Any ideas? Thanks

[rangeral]

Try using system restore to go back to when it was working properly.

[DreamMan]

I am afraid I made some changes that I dont want to lose. I am contacting the makers of Sys Mechanic to see if their software is responsible. I may need to uninstall it......

[rangeral]

Uninstalling it is not a big deal, if it doesn't want to uninstall then you'll have to reinstall it to remove it from your system.

Or you could go to the windows/inf folder look for ie.inf rite clik and select install to correct to some corrupt system files concerning IE.