|
| Recent
Articles |
Successfully Upgrading Your RAID Drivers...
I just spent the better half of the day upgrading my son's Dell 1721 laptop from Vista to Windows 7. I have done my share of Linux installs and upgrades on all kinds of hardware configurations but this...
How To Find What Version Of Windows You Are Running
Every so often I go to download some software for my Acer Windows PC and have to decide between a 32-bit and 64-bit version of the application.
Using Your Apple iPod On A Windows PC
I just got an Apple iPod Touch, which is super cool, but I have no idea how to get it to work with my Dell PC. I'm running Windows Vista and use Windows Media Player 10 (WMP10) for the music on my computer...
How To Add A Password To Wake Your Pc From...
I saw your earlier article about how to set up your Mac so that it requires a password when waking up from sleep or from the screen saver (see password required...
Making Windows Quieter By Turning Off Event Sounds
I want to turn off all the miscellaneous sounds in Windows that make noise when I carry out some action - like the clicks whenever the web browser goes to a web page, or the dings whenever a box appears...
Using Copy And Paste Within Windows Command...
I know how to open a command prompt in Microsoft Windows, but the normal methods for cutting and copying and pasting - like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V - don't...
How To Resize Your Images In Windows
I took some photos with my digital camera and I want to e-mail them to friends or upload them to my Facebook, but the files are enormous, and uploading them...
Help For XP Users Upgrading To Windows 7
Laplink Software has officially launched a version of PCmover that allows Windows XP users to do in-place upgrades to Windows 7. PCmover Windows...
|
|
02.08.10
How To Clear Your IE Browsing History
 By
Dave Taylor
My mom keeps checking out what sites I visit and I want to clean up my tracks. It's not that I'm going anywhere I shouldn't - of course - but I just really want some privacy and just want to be able to wipe my MSIE8 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0) browsing history. How do I do that?
Dave's Answer:
You have probably noticed that when you have Internet Explorer 8 running, all you have to do is type "www" into the address bar, and below the address bar, you'll start to see a list of titles of Web pages that have been visited recently on the computer. You may have also realized that if you share the computer with other users, this means that others could do the same thing to see what websites you've been visiting.
To delete this data so that others can't see what websites you've visited, click the "Safety" button at the top of the Internet Explorer window (this only appears in Internet Explorer 8 and later) and pick the "Delete Browsing History" option:
This will bring up the "Delete Browsing History" dialog box:
If you're sufficiently paranoid, then to delete all traces of which websites you've visited, first uncheck the box marked "Preserve Favorites website data", then check all the other boxes, then click the "Delete" button at the bottom to complete the process. This will delete all temporarily stored data that could indicate to another user what websites you have visited.
If that's all you want to do, then that's how you clear your browsing history. The End. (Although you may want to read this article about [link] InPrivate Browsing, which will reduce the need to keep clearing your browser history - and you may want to glance at the note at the bottom of this page, "Clearing your browser history is no protection against spyware".)
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is
internationally known as an expert on both business and technology issues.
Holder of an MSEd and MBA, author of twenty books and founder of four
startups, he also runs a strategic marketing company and consults with firms
seeking the best approach to working with weblogs and social networks. Dave
is an award-winning speaker and frequent guest on radio and podcast
programs.
AskDaveTaylor.com
http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
|
WindowsDailyNews is brought to you by: