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Erase History
Erase-History.net - learn more about Internet and computer history, tips to erase history files
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Do you know that your computer stores traces of everything you do while working on the computer or surfing the Internet?
There are different kinds of history tracks stored on your PC:
- Internet history
- Windows history
- History stored by different programs you use
Internet history
While Internet surfing your browser records all your actions: websites you visited, files you downloaded, and more. Internet history stored on your computers speeds up loading of webpages and makes web surfing more convenient but it could contains details that may seriously compromise your privacy.
To protect your privacy you should erase history of your Internet surfing. You can erase history manually or using special erase history software. Clear All History is powerful erase history software that provides an easy way to automatically erase history tracks including browser history, search history, Autocomplete, cache, cookies, stored passwords and all index.dat files.
Also read the tips that help you erase history manually:
• how to erase history in Internet Explorer
• how to erase history in Firefox
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Erase Internet History including browsing history, search history, AutoComplete, cache, cookies and stored passwords in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and other popular browsers.
Erase Windows history including Windows Temporary Files, clipboard content, the recent documents list, recently opened files, run history, swap file, search history, and Start menu open programs history.
Erase history of some popular programs such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Google Desktop, Windows Media Player history and more.
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What Internet history tracks are stored on your computer
Browser history stores a list of websites you visited. It's easily accessible from your browser window.
Search history stores a drop-down list with all search strings you typed.
Browser cache stores the content of web pages you visited, including pictures, videos, etc. By simply opening the Temporary Internet Files folder, anyone can see what web sites you visited, what pictures and movies you watched.
Cookies
Websites leave cookies on your computer after you visit them. Although cookies are helpful for things like remembering your automatic log-ins, they may seriously compromise your privacy.
Internet history is just a part of all history tracks stored on your computer. To protect your privacy you should also erase history stored by Windows and erase history in applications you use.
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History stored by Windows
Windows keeps tracks of your computer activity in order to provide a more pleasant computer experience.
Windows Temporary folder stores Windows and other programs temporary files. This directory can become cluttered and contain files from programs you no longer have installed or files which may violate your privacy.
Recent documents list
Windows stores a list of documents and files you have recently opened and worked with.
Recently run programs list
Windows stores a list of programs you have run using the Run option in the Start Menu.
Windows Search "Files & Folders" History
Windows keeps a list of files you searched for through the Search option in the Start menu. And this search history will be visible to anyone who begins a new search. Windows Files & Folders search history can be easily seen if you open the Search results window.
Open programs history (Windows Explorer UserAssist Data)
Every time you open a program from the Start Menu, the date and number of times you used it is stored in an encrypted database. Windows keeps full run history under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist. If you don't clear UserAssist data, it can compromise your privacy and security and increase the number of entries in the registry slowing Windows down.
Pagefile
Pagefile is a space on the hard disk used as the virtual memory extension of computer RAM. While working on the computer, you use different programs - so page file (swap file) may contain sensitive or confidential information, some applications may store "clear" passwords. To protect your privacy you may want to clear swap file (page file) so nobody could see your data in the swap file.
History stored by different programs you use
Most applications use the Windows-provided dialogs for open and save operations. Every time you open or save a file Windows keeps a record of this activity, including the names of files that you open or save in the recently open and save files list (ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU and ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU). When you choose the Open or Save item from application's file menu, Windows displays a drop-down list of your most recently used files or opens the certain directory. This information is kept in a Windows registry and can be easily viewed.
Furthermore, different applications you use keep history tracks in order to provide more pleasant computer experience. E.g. Word and Excel keep information about documents you recently opened and worked with, Google Toolbar remembers the words that you have searched for, and so on.
This information can seriously compromise your privacy as everyone can access your personal data, browsing history, etc.
For detailed instructions how to erase history manually read the articles:
• how to erase history in Internet Explorer
• how to erase history in Firefox
• how to erase cache in Internet Explorer
• how to erase cache in Firefox
Erase cookies
• how to erase cookies in Internet Explorer
• how to erase cookies in Firefox
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