I am trying to clean up history of every site i went to or what i have downloaded before handing over my computer to the networking guys at my job. Last time when i gave to them to fix something they were able to see everything i went to even after i cleared my browsing history, cookies, cache etc. How do i go about viewing and deleting all the history (all the sites i went to and my computer history) ?? please help?
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You have to perform a “secure delete” to remove information permanently. This is the only real way to erase information off of magnetic media. This works by encrypting the data and deleting it many times over until its nothing more than unreadable code. Shredding is another technique but not nearly as effective. Also. The US Dept of Defense endorse “secure delete” as the only way to permanently remove data. Check out this link.
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/secure-file-deletion.html
The only way to COMPLETELY erase things is to destroy your Hard drive. otherwise anybody who knows what they are doing can do something called unearthing information … which Im pretty sure is illegal. breaching privacy acts n stuff like that.
You need to install Ccleaner, run it then uninstall it. Once run it will get rid of all of your Cookies & web history…
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Once you have cleared out the history, just uninstall Ccleaner. And the IT guys will never be the wiser…
open up the internet .
if you have windows xp. simply click tools then click”delete browsing histroy then click delete all.
if you dont have that options this is the alternate
1. click tool
2.click internet options.
3. click delete under brower settings.
4.click delte all
You may want to try download a program called CCleaner to clean up all the craps/junk data including history.
This sounds like you want to clean your drive out, while leaving vital files intact.
Webroot Software offers a program called “Window Washer”, which does what you seek. It costs around $30 to purchase.
http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-products-windowwasher.html?WRSID=1c4b5e0d1b13802972ec941c3c27ac79
I use a program called history sweeper, i cleans all of my history (networking, internet, firefox….)
go the the link below and download the one that looks best to you
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=free+history+sweeper&btnG=Search&meta=&safe=on
Download and use Ccleaner, great program for cleaning your computer.
open the internet browser. select tools, then options, then browsing history. from there you can delete your browsing history, your cookies and even delete any stored info (like passwords that your computer automatically remembers) if you want to.
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while signed on the internet, look up under “tools” up on the bar and find “internet options”. You will find it in there. You can delete “browse history”. Now quit looking at porn.
Use CCleaner, it deletes your cookies and history:
http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10315544.html
Click on the Cleaner Tab on the left and under Windows tick all boxes in Internet Explorer. If you save your username/passwords untick ‘Autocomplete Form History’ and under System tick all boxes except the last 2, and leave Advanced all unticked.
Then click on the Applications tab and tick all apart from Saved form information if you use Firefox and save your username/passwords
Click on Options then Settings and under Secure Deletion mark the Secure file deletion (slower) and use the drop down to select Guttman (35 passes)
Please note that some files are ‘locked’ but will be removed on shutdown.
For deeper cleaning use Eraser:
http://www.download.com/Eraser/3000-2092_4-10231814.html
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Many believe that when you ‘delete’ the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.
Open Eraser, click File > New task and select your hard drive, normally C: then right click and select Run, it will overwrite all previously deleted items beyond recovery