The security and privacy consciousness of Internet users are at an all time high for sometime now. But very few of us who use Internet Explorer (I use IE only very rarely now) actually know that the whole history is not cleared even if we do Internet Options»Clear History. Well most of the History is cleared but still it’s Windows we all know it is famous for the backdoors and ‘front windows’. And more over since Microsoft© has decided to make us pay a nice amount for this OS they have made sure everything that we do can be checked by others also. Hmmm too good.
Now that Microsoft© is not very keen on our privacy lets be our own saviors. Besides the Temporary Internet files and History in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\ Windows also saves your Internet history in INDEX.DAT file and . Before you go any further you need to have enabled viewing of hidden files (Tools>>Folder Options>>View>>Show Hidden Files and Folders).
Now go to the above directory, voila there wont be any INDEX.DAT nor will be there any other folders like those shown below..So what do we do?
Those who have tried to delete this file would have noted that it cant be deleted directly. and login as another user in Windows and goto the previous Folder (USERNAME must be the previous user name). Now you will be able to see all those specified folders (if not enable showing of Hidden Files). Just select the folders and the file the press SHIFT+DEL (to delete files forever) and your history is cleared forever.
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