Auto complete internet explorer

NTFSD
1

Hello Gurus,
I want your urgent help and ideas.

We all know the automplete utility in internet explorer.i.e if I write
www.pep the full website name www.pepsi.com comes below the text
written . This happen if www.pepsi.com has been visited before on the
same machine.
I do not want this auto complete utility to work when my file system
driver is on.

1>So how can I block this from kernel mode .
2>Or what file does IE use to store last visited sites and later uses it
to display full name of web site below text written (www.pepsi.com in
our case) .Hence failing any write on that file :- should be a good
idea.
3> Is this file like autocomplete.dat residing somewhere in the hard
drive???.

Anurag

2

It is in winInet caching mechanism, I forgot the folders and corresponding files, but it gets pumped thru IE’s caching mechanism at usr land, and pretty dauting to decipher !!

-pro

3

Wouldn’t IE/Options/Content/Personal Information/Autocomplete/ uncheck
boxes do? I suppose there is an API do that programmatically (not from
the kernel, of course).

  • Vitaly

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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 11:40 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntfsd] Auto complete internet explorer

Hello Gurus,
I want your urgent help and ideas.

We all know the automplete utility in internet explorer.i.e if I write
www.pep the full website name www.pepsi.com comes below the text
written . This happen if www.pepsi.com has been visited before on the
same machine.
I do not want this auto complete utility to work when my file system
driver is on.

1>So how can I block this from kernel mode .
2>Or what file does IE use to store last visited sites and later uses it
to display full name of web site below text written (www.pepsi.com in
our case) .Hence failing any write on that file :- should be a good
idea.
3> Is this file like autocomplete.dat residing somewhere in the hard
drive???.

Anurag

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4

> I do not want this auto complete utility to work when my file system

driver is on.

Patch the IE settings in the registry.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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