Q. How Do I Set Up Explorer (win Xp, Nov’06) To View Web Pages Offline Under ‘history’?

[Trevor]

Under Tools I have set History to 60 days. Have a 200 GB hard drive. Yet offline clicking on sites visited – all are listed -- just brings up ‘This page cannot be displayed’.

What settings must I tweak to get it to save (at least the main text on) all visited pages in History automatically, or must I set them one-by-one? Temporary Internet File allocation is set at 1158 MB, which may be too low. How much should I allot? Thanks.

[Rice_King]

From Microsoft (MSDN):

Offline Favorites--Offline Favorites and Scheduled Offline Favorites have been removed from Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer supports RSS feeds, which provide scheduled updates to web content and offline reading of this content. For more information about RSS feeds, read the RSS Blog.

Somewhere I read that the IE7 add-on, IE7Pro added the off-line browsing functionality back to IE7. But I could not find anything on the website specifically relating to off-line browsing.

[MarkBKK]

Under Tools I have set History to 60 days. Have a 200 GB hard drive. Yet offline clicking on sites visited – all are listed -- just brings up ‘This page cannot be displayed’.

What settings must I tweak to get it to save (at least the main text on) all visited pages in History automatically, or must I set them one-by-one? Temporary Internet File allocation is set at 1158 MB, which may be too low. How much should I allot? Thanks.

If you're using IE6, add the pages you wish to view off-line using Favorites>Add to Favorites...> and check the ''Make available offline'' box. Alternatively there are several shareware/freeware applications that allow you to download pages and pages linked to from those pages (to a user definable number), which you can then view off-line with any browser.

[mr_hippo]

Why not click 'Save as' under File and send to My Docs?

[Trevor]

From Microsoft (MSDN):

Offline Favorites--Offline Favorites and Scheduled Offline Favorites have been removed from Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer supports RSS feeds, which provide scheduled updates to web content and offline reading of this content. For more information about RSS feeds, read the RSS Blog.

Somewhere I read that the IE7 add-on, IE7Pro added the off-line browsing functionality back to IE7. But I could not find anything on the website specifically relating to off-line browsing.

Could I revert to I.E. 6 to regain access to offline pages? Where would I find?

Don't know which of these might be any good ...

http://freeware.intrastar.net/offline.htm

[Rice_King]

Could I revert to I.E. 6 to regain access to offline pages? Where would I find?

Don't know which of these might be any good ...

http://freeware.intrastar.net/offline.htm

A better solution just might be to switch to the popular FireFox 2.0 Web Browser. Not only is it faster, more secure, and totally customizable, it also offers a "Work Offline" mode.