Delete File History

What is history and why is it dangerous?

Your computer (actually the programs on your computer) track and save many of your actions. For example, Windows stores the programs you have started, Internet Explorer remembers which websites you have visited, Google Toolbar remembers the search words, and so on. These traces of your computer activity are commonly known as history.

Contrary to popular belief this is done in order to harm you as part of some kind of conspiracy in the world, the story is actually used to make your computing experience more convenient. Threats to privacy include many more things than history.

What kinds of history are there?

There are generally two types of history: the first is created by Windows, Internet Explorer or other parts of the operating system; and the second is created by other applications (such as Media Player, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, etc.). The most important type of history is the Internet history that is created by Internet Explorer (from now, we call it IE), which records every page you visit on the Internet. To see this history start Internet Explorer and select View -; Explorer Bar - History. This will open a narrow window on the left side of the main IE window, which shows the pages you have open in the past.

The second type of history is Windows search history. You can see if you open the window of search results. The next types of history are the early history of the Start Menu Run menu of programs used most frequently.

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 the history of the common file dialog. Almost every application has a kind of opening saving features / and most applications use the Windows dialog boxes provided for these operations. Now let's take a look at the elements of the Media Player history. First, there is a list of recently opened files on the File menu Media Player. Second, each played file is stored in the default playlist.

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

How to delete history?

Also there are so many traces of history and they are scattered in so many places that their manual deletion would be very long and tedious work with high probability of mistakes that could lead to failures of privacy or even make your computer unusable.