IE7's history bar tracks every document ever opened, not just websites browsed. Is there a way to stop it?

Question

Internet Explorer 7 not only tracks your websites in the history bar but on my XP machine it tracks every document ever opened. Under history I found a "My Documents" icon that revealed every word doc, text doc, and spreadsheet opened. It even showed date and time.

Is there a way to stop it from doing this? It doesn't matter if IE7 was ever used for the week or not. It still records the computer user's activities. Too much Big Brother for my tastes.

My wife does sensitive insurance work from time to time on the my computer and I don't like how easy IE7 makes it for anyone to snoop. And deleting the history in IE7 every day doesn't make any sense.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Tools
Internet Options
Clear Cookies
Delete Files (offline)
Clear History
set days to keep pages in history to 0
There is a downside: When you delete cookies, some programs or goodies you downloaded may or may not work, pictures may or may not become X’s the next time you open the file, etc.
It’s your choice to make.

You can also:
Click Contents tab: now click the content tab,
click “enable”
set what you want users to see
click “general”
here, you can set a password
Where it says use autocomplete, click settings
uncheck all the things you dont want your browser to store. This way you won’t have to keep going back and clearing things out.


History with Internet Explorer 7
In IE7, on the Yahoo toolbar, there is a single yellow star. Click it to view Favorites, Feed, and History.
Also, click Tools
cl Internet Options
cl Browsing History
cl Delete
at the bottom left is a link "About Deleting Browsing History"
You should check it out.

Answer 2

Explorer is the way your computer remembers things your computer did that day, or for how ever many days it is set to remember. If you have lots of memory, your computer will actually get faster and faster, because those pages are already ready. You can set it to delete your info when it closes, and you can reduce the days it remembers to 1, and it will just remember 1 day. It is helpfull if you have something to go to if you have done something important, and you can't remember where you put it. You could also switch to Firefox, and it will clear everytime you exit.

Answer 3

Switch back to IE 6. Everybody I know did.