14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has confirmed an issue in which customers running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are prevented from deleting long URLs stored in Internet Explorer’s browsing history. According to the software giant, affected are not only users running the RTM Builds of the two operating systems, but also those that applied the first upgrade to the platforms, and are currently running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
The Redmond company did not offer any details about the versions of Internet Explorer impacted by this glitch, but it’s safe to assume that both Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 can give users a hard time when they try to remove long URLs from browsing history.
The source of the problem has already been identified, with Microsoft explain that “This issue occurs because Windows Search does not guarantee that URLs longer than 425 characters will be deleted.”
As of earlier this week, Microsoft is providing affected customers with an update designed to deal with the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 glitch.
KB2547666 is live as of June 28th, and in addition to being served through Windows Update to all Windows 7 users, the refresh can also be downloaded from Microsoft and installed manually.
Customers will be able to find the necessary download links at the bottom of this article.
“To resolve this issue, apply this update. After you apply this update, Windows indexes the file system. This is a one-time operation and may take some time,” Microsoft explained.
The KB 2547666 article contains additional information about this particular Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 update that users can turn to.
Here are the download links from Microsoft:
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2547666) Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2547666)