How to Delete Your Browser's History

Series Summary

A personal computer's job is to help a user create, manipulate, deliver, receive or delete media content. This is a simple, sterile definition that sounds uninteresting on the surface. Nevertheless, these fundamental functions mimic human ability in some surprising ways. Therefore, the computer is increasingly becoming an engine of the imagination, a notion that is evident with the advent of the Internet. The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web. In this free video series, a veteran of high tech industries demonstrates how to use the Internet and take advantage of its many tools. Discover how to delete a Web browser's history, how to change your password on Yahoo! and how to export and save bookmarks from Firefox. Keep up with the age of information and technology by learning to adjust a Facebook mini-feed, changing proxy settings in Internet Explorer and checking Hotmail in Microsoft Outlook.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Todd Amazeen. I've been an internet business consultant for 15 years. I'm going to show you how to delete your browser's history. On your PC, click on the Start button, in the lower left hand corner, and then select Control Panel from the Start menu. When the Control Panel comes up, you'll have one of two views. This is the category view. As you click here, we'll switch over to the classic view. You see the classic view, is an alphabetical list of options. Scroll down, and double click on Internet Options. Make sure that the General tab is selected, and then in the history box, click on Clear History, and when you're prompted, click Yes, and then click Ok on the Internet Properties box. Now, to do the same thing using the category view, simply click on Switch to category view, and when the category view come up, click on Network and Internet connections. Now, select Internet Options, from the lower left hand column. Again, make sure that the General tab is selected, and in the History box, click on the Clear History button. When you're prompted, click Yes, and then click Ok. You've just learned how to delete your browser's history. I'm Todd Amazeen."