How to Delete Your Browser's History

Want to make sure nobody can snoop and see where you've been on the Internet? Sometimes being able to erase browser history can come in handy, especially on shared computers. By following these instructions you'll be able to do just that with any browsers you use in Windows.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Modems
• Internet Access
• Web Browsers

1. Click Start on the desktop.

2. Go to Settings.

3. Click Control Panel.

4. Double-click Internet Options.

5. Make sure the General tab is selected.

6. Click Clear History in the History box.

7. Click OK when it asks if you want to delete all items in your history folder.

8. Click OK at the bottom of the General box to exit.

Tips & Warnings

• On a Macintosh, look for command names like Preferences, Internet Options, or Settings and options like Clear or Delete History.

[rondesi]

on 11/21/2009 CCleaner is also a good tool to delete browser history and a bunch of other items. Plus, you can set it to use DOD multipass wiping.

[crosser]

on 11/9/2009 And this is a universal browsing history removal tool: History Killer Pro

[techway]

on 9/6/2009 This guide is for Internet Explorer 7. For more guides head over to www.deletehistory.com

[controlhistory]

on 8/18/2009
Hi,
My company has created a product that could solve this problem. Our software, ControlHistory allows you to selectively or completely delete your history. You can download it from www.controlhistory.com. It supports
IE (ver. 6+)
Firefox (ver. 3+)
Chrome (ver. 1+)
Google Desktop Search
Many programs like MS Word, Excel, Acrobat Reader, WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. that save their history in the Registry.

You can use the software for free to view your history but to be able to delete it you need a license. The cost of a license is USD 0.99 (99 cents).

[whatabother]

on 8/10/2009 This is fine (and trivial) if the "delete history" button is activated. How does one delete history if the system administrators have disabled this option?

I have admin rights to the machine so there has to be some setting in the configuration files to enable it, or some file to delete. Perhaps a file in temporary internet files folder?