This is additional information concerning my inquiry. Using F4 shows the
same results as the drop-down arrow on the address bar, without any recent
entries.
Using Control+H does show all visited sites by day, but those are
alphabetical, and based on my high level of internet activity, the length of
that history can be voluminous, and not at all practical to use for returning
to a specific site, especially one that was quite recent in the day.

"Bob VanHorst" wrote:

> At the far right of the address bar in IE8, there is an arrow down which if
> clicked should show a list of recent entries, but none are showing since I
> upgraded to IE8. In Internet Options, General tab, history is set to save
> the last 20 days. Not having recent entries showing as described above
> requires me to re-enter frequently visited URLs over and over. How do I fix
> this?