A strange thing: Two XP Pro machines, running different A/V and firewall suites (Trend & ZoneAlarm), in different environments (home/work), yet on both Internet Explorer has started loosing the browser history on shutdown.
Both are set to remember history for different numbers of days, the "Delete Temp files on shutdown" is not ticked, and the A/V packages aren't set to clear history. I can't think of anything else and it's only started sometime in the last week
Any ideas on what might be happening?
UPDATE 2008-11-29: I found an apparent fix to this clue in a thread on Lockergnome;
An answer by "Bearspa" suggested Start > Run > REGSVR32 /i SHDOCVW.DLL to re-register a dll .
However a bit more searching & I found this which said "The funtionality of shdocvw.dll is replaced by ieframe.dll in IE7" so I tried a fix to re-register that which appears to have worked.
Re-registers this key
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B}\1.1\0\win32]
@=hex(2):25,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,72,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,69,00,65,00,\
66,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00