Can you permantantly delete your internet history form your computer?

Answer 1

The method of deleting internet history depends on the OS and browser.

If you are using a Microsoft OS and MS Explorer:

1) Open a browser window

2) Go to Tools

3) Go to Internet Options

Note: You can also go to Internet Options from the Control Panel

4) Under Browsing history, click on "Delete"

5) From there, you can close out the window and exit the browser

You can also clear part of the browser history by going to "Favorites" then the "History" tab and then deleting all the days shown. This won't get rid of the most recently visited sites up in the address bar though.

If you are using Firefox:

1) Open a browser window

2) Go to Tools

3) Go to the Privacy tab

4) Check the box for "Clear history when Firefox closes"

5) Close the Tools window

6) Close the browser

To elminate some other residual information that could be used to reconstruct your internet history, you might also want to do two more things: 1) delete cookies and 2) go to the Start window, open All Programs, open Accessories, open Disk Cleanup, make sure "Temporary Internet Files" is checked, then click "OK" to delete the temporary files.

Other browsers like Chrome or Opera have similar procedures to clear the browser history. With all that said, a person skilled in computer forensics can still recover most if not all of your internet history, so if you are trying to delete the history to cover up illegal activities - your only hope is to incinerate your computer, change your name, and flee to a country that doesn't allow extradition. If you are trying to cover up your browsing the internet at work to feed your particular kink - your employer can still reconstruct your browsing from the server logs (unless they have a lousy sysadmin) which you can't touch unless your ARE the sysadmin, so - behave yourself at work.

Answer 2

In order to delete internet history, many people tend to find the tools in their browsers. For example, in Firefox, selelct Tools, and you can find where to delete the internet history.
But actually, even you think you have deleted the history, Windows system still records them somewhere you can't find.
A history record file named index.dat is like that. You can find it, but you can not delete it manually.
I use a tool named history cleaner / privacy protector to do this.

Answer 3

you will have to destroy your harddrive that would be the only way.