How To Delete Explorer's Most Recently Viewed
Internet Explorer allows you to delete your entire browsing history by clicking a button in one of its settings menu. This helps free up disk space and makes the browser run faster. However, there may be times when you only want to remove traces of your most recently viewed browsing activity. Doing so will leave your older history records intact. Use Internet Explorer's history management tool to perform this task.
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Instructions
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Launch Internet Explorer.
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Press "Ctrl" + "H" to open the "History" panel.
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Click the drop-down arrow at the top of the panel and then click "View by Date." The panel will display folders that contain your browsing history. For example, the folder named "Today" contains your most recent activity. The "Last Week" folder has history records from the previous week. You may see other date-related folders such as "Two Weeks Ago" and one for yesterday.
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Click the "Today" folder to open it. Internet Explorer will display a list of subfolders within that folder. The names of these subfolders represent the high-level domain names of websites you have visited. For example, you may see a subfolder named "Google.com." This subfolder contains the URLS of all the Google pages you visited today.
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Click one of the subfolders to display its history items. Right-click a history item you wish to delete. A drop-down menu appears. Click "Delete" to delete the history item.
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Delete other items from the Today folders as needed.
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Tips & Warnings
If you wish to delete recent history items older than today, choose one of the other folders such as "Last Week." While viewing history items in the "History" panel, you can click any item to navigate to the URL associated with that history item.
