on your comuter? the web addresses or url's or whatever and the history.
2007-01-01 13:37:14 · 6 answers · asked by R ♥ I ♥ P ♥ Casey Calvert 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Control Panel>Internet options>Delete Browsing History>Delete All
You Can also do this= Start>Run>%temp%>Delete all
2007-01-01 13:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The history is stored in a file called desktop.ini. This file is simply deleted when you clean the history.
The history of where you went is also store in a file called index.dat, though that information isn't organized by date like the history is. I believe that index.dat is used to help complete web addresses if you type them in.
I use privacyMantra from
http://www.codeode.com/privacymantra/index.html
It seems to do a good job deleting both files. It is free. Though I don't recommend "mil shield" for getting rid of index.dat files because it costs money and privacyMantra is free, the mil shield site has a very good explanation of why index.dat is a security hole.
http://www.milincorporated.com/a_indexdat.html
privacyMantra and most of the other tools (like ccleaner) don't put the files in the recycle-bin but really delete them. Unfortunately simply deleting doesn't get rid of the information in the files. You can use tools to un-delete files. To get rid of the information, I use eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ to erase all the free space on the disk. This overwrites the free space multiple times with random values. This overwriting gets rid of all the data. Eraser also overwrites the unused file pointers. You can set up eraser to wipe out the internet tracks, but it is a pain to do so.
2007-01-01 21:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by giraffe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can also go to START -> CONTROL PANEL -> Internet Properties -> General -> Delete Browsing history. for Internet Explorer. It depends on your browser. FireFox you click Tools -> Clear Private Data.
2007-01-01 21:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to tools>Internet Options>General Tab>Click on "clear history"...
2007-01-01 21:40:08 · answer #4 · answered by sapeabo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can go to history, highlight what you want to delete and delete it.
2007-01-01 21:43:42 · answer #5 · answered by renpen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would also suggest that you take a look at:
http://www.ccleaner.com
It's a free and very handy program!
2007-01-01 21:59:16 · answer #6 · answered by DiNozzo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋