jani, thanks for the response.  i'm having trouble comprehending that this is
an impossible task.  ie's history is available thru windows explorer under
c:\documents and settings\[user name]\local settings\history and items can
easily be deleted.  for some reason, however, when you use system.io to
navigate that directory it appears empty to .net.  there are at least a few
applications out there that delete all history but i'm just not sure how
they're doing it.  any ideas?  i did find some code to clear IE's cache and
it required several api calls.  anyway, i would appreciate any comments.  tia!