How to Remove the Address History on an Internet Browser
If you are concerned about your privacy you may be interested in deleting the browser history periodically on your computer. Anyone who logs on to your computer can find out the websites you have visited by checking your browser history unless you delete it from your computer. Simply clearing your browser history is not enough. A registry modification is needed for complete deletion from your computer.
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Instructions
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Click start, then run. Type regedit in the box that appears. When regedit opens navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs", then delete the keys that list URL's you no longer want on you computer.
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Make sure the remaining (those not deleted) keys are in sequential order starting from url1. If they are not in sequential order all keys will be corrupted and deleted. If this happens you will lose any addresses that you wanted to keep.
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Alternatively, right-click the start menu, then click Properties, Start Menu tab, Customize. Go to Advanced tab under the recent documents box, click on clear list to clean the history of the Internet Explorer address bar, as well as the listing of recent documents being used or opened. Be sure and review the list of recent documents before deleting to make sure you do not delete anything you need or want to keep.
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Retain your browsing history but keep it private. Open a folder in My Documents then create a file in the folder. Copy your browsing history from "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs" and paste it into file then save the file in the My Documents folder, then delete your browsing history from the Internet Explorer address bar as described in step one. You will now have a folder in My Documents with your browsing history that no one else will know exists. For even more security you could store this file on external media.
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