I see a similar inquiry from FrankZ on 4/7/09. To answer your questions you
posed to him concerning Autocomplete settings under Options/Content, Here's
what I have check marks in for those settings: Address Bar, Browsing History,
Favorites, Use Windows searcch for better options, Use names and passwords on
forms, and Ask me before saving passwords. I hope this and my previous
addition to my original inquiry is helpful.

"Bob VanHorst" wrote:

> 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?