How to Erase History on Computer

Erasing the details of the history on your computer not only frees up a lot of hard drive space that has been allocated by your system to store the details of the items you have viewed, but also prevents the misuse of your private information which can be viewed by others. Your system keeps a track of almost all the activities you do, hence, it becomes easy for an outsider to gain access to your private information. In general there are two ways of erasing the history on your computer, the first involves, manual searching of the saved data and deleting it and the second involves the use of software designed especially to erase the history on a system.

Depending on the browser you use, there are few steps that you need to take in order to erase the history on your system. If your browser is Internet Explorer, open a browser and click on the 'tools' tab. A pop up menu pops up. Select the 'internet options' from the pop up menu. Then find the

'general' tab and click on it. Go to the browser history section where you will find a button named 'delete'. Click on this button to delete all previous browsing history. You can also click on the button named 'delete all offline content' to delete all the saved content on your system. To ensure complete secrecy, you can also delete all the cookies on your system.

For a Firefox browser, click on the 'tools' menu and a pop up menu appears. Select the option 'clear private data'. A pop menu appears and gives you all the options to erase the data related to the history. Once you have chosen what all to delete, click on the button 'clear private data now'. However, Firefox users need not have to go through all the above mentioned steps, they can simply take the short cut by pressing SHIFT+CTRL+DELETE. Once you press these three keys, the 'clear data' window opens automatically, from where you can easily clear the private data.

Users who prefer using Netscape browsers can easily erase the internet history by selecting the 'edit' tab and then choosing the 'preferences' tab. Then select the 'history' tab. Click on the button named 'clear history' to erase the browser history.

If you are too busy and cannot spend time to perform the above mentioned steps, then you can always buy or download privacy protecting programs, that are programmed to erase the browsing history and some of the advanced privacy protection programs even erase the history of the applications as well. This means that all the logs related to working with any of the applications will also be erased completely. If you store highly secure data on your system, then for maximum protection, you can install specialized privacy protection programs, using which you can easily erase both the internet history and the logs related to other activities on your system.

Originally posted 2010-05-19 03:35:38.

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