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[H1011]How To Delete History
by Mil Incorporated, Mil
Your computer (well, actually the programs on your computer) track and save many of your actions. For example Windows remembers which programs you have started, Internet Explorer remembers which websites you have visited, Google Toolbar remembers the words that you have searched for, and so on. These traces of your computer activity are commonly known as history.

Contrary to the popular belief that this is done in order to harm you as part of some sort of worldwide conspiracy, history is actually used for the purpose of making your computer experience more convenient. However, as in many other cases, the good things can be used for bad purposes. In this case the information about your computer habits can be used from someone to gather very private information about yourself and to harm you, your work, your business, or your family. The privacy threats include many more things than history. Nevertheless, history is one of the most obvious traces and is very easy to abuse.

What kinds of history are there?

There are generally two types of history: the first one is created by Windows, Internet Explorer or other parts of the operating system; and the second one is created by other applications (such as Media Player, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, etc.). The second type is covered in the next chapter of this article.

The most important type of history is the Internet history that is created by Internet Explorer (from now on we will call it IE), which records every page that you have visited on the Internet. In order to see this history start Internet Explorer and select View -> Explorer Bar -> History. This will open a narrow window in the left side of the main IE window, which shows the pages that you have opened in the past.

The second type of history is Windows search history. It can be seen if you open the Search results window. To do that you need to click Start menu -> Search.

The next types of history are the Start menu Run history and Start menu most frequently used programs.

There are other types of history but all of them are associated with specific applications.

Applications history:

The first type of application history is called Common file dialog history. Almost every application has some sort of open/save features and most of the applications use the Windows-provided dialogs for these operations. This ensures that open/save dialogs of most programs are very similar to each other. However here comes the bad news - Windows records the names of the files that you open or save. Even if these names do not show in the file open/save dialog of particular application, they are still recorded and can be viewed from someone who knows where to look for them.

Now, let's take a look at the Media Player history items. First, there is a list of most recently opened files in the File menu of Media Player. Second, each played file is remembered in the default playlist.

Google Toolbar, Google Deskbar, Yahoo toolbar and ICQ toobar all have a special type of search history that records the words that you have searched for.

How to delete history?

Deleting of all history traces is very hard task that can not be done manually because most of them are stored in system areas that are not directly accessible from the user. Also the history traces are so many and they are scattered at so many places that their manual deletion would be very long and tedious work with high probability of mistakes that could lead to privacy holes or even render your computer unusable.

Mil Shield is a powerful privacy protection program that was designed specifically to delete all types history that are described in this article; to clean and shred the index.dat files; and to clean all other privacy-related traces as cookies, Temporary Internet Files, AutoComplete forms and passwords, UserData records, and many others.

However, all this surfing of the internet may end up in the sites you visit being recorded in secret files in the PC. In addition to all your movies, documents and clippings being recorded in secret files in the hard disk of your computer, there is also a possibility of information you are not aware of being downloaded in the computer. This can sometimes be quite discriminating to you if unauthorized information is downloaded in the computer.

So the best thing that you could do to provide some protection and security from this happening is to install some of the software available in the internet. Internet eraser is an internet eraser, privacy protector and system optimizer software program, which helps to protect your computer by erasing of all tracks.

With software such as the one already mentioned, it is possible to erase your browser history, porn files eraser, address bar eraser and much more. This type of application allows you to scan your computer for free. Through the scanning process, you are sure to get shocked at the amount of files, images and content that you find existing in the pc without your knowledge.

With the help of internet eraser programs, it is possible for you to scan your computer for porn related tracks and popular browsers which can be deleted with a single click. This kind of application helps you remove banners and images that may download secretly on the PC and thus helps you clean your computer of these unnecessary downloads.

After a proper review you can discover that such program helps to delete all the IE internet history files one by one instead of deleting all the files at a go. This way, you can retain the sites that you need, and erase the sites that you don't actually need on the computer. Majority of the internet eraser software not only supports Internet Explorer, but also Opera, Netscape and FireFox.

Internet privacy software helps you delete your IE address bar history one by one. The reason this feature is beneficial is because sometimes, you may not have to delete all the address bar history at a go. It may be needed to keep the most frequently visited URLs in the address book for your quick access and only the unnecessary URLs will have to be deleted.

Removing cookies is also an important task which will help you keep your computer running smoothly. Cookies are special files that can spy on your personal information and all the activities you do on the website. It is not that all cookies are bad; there are some cookies that are good. So it is up to you to delete only the cookies that you don't need and to retain the cookies that you need on not only IE, but also FireFox, Opera and Netscape.

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