How to Clear History to Speed up Computer - By: Jeanie Yang

To protect your web browsing habits from falling into the wrong hands or to prevent your privacy from being compromised, you should know how to clear history on computer.

What sorts of history can be divided on computer?

To be able to get rid of all of your computer history, you need to master what sorts of history can be divided on computer. Below are their kinds:
1. Internet browsers history
2. The web cache on computer
3. Auto complete history
4. The Cookies
5. The notorious index.dat

How to clear history on computer?

There are two ways for you to clear history: manually and automatically. But I have to warn you, removing these files by hand is a little technical and if you are unskilled with compute, I advise you had better find a cleaner tool which is extremely simple to operate and just requires a couple of clicks to totally remove all of your history.

If you insist on clearing history manually, listed here are the instructions regarding the methods to clear history by hand.

1. Clear Internet Browsers History.

Here is mainly concentrated on Internet Explorer. If you are using 7.0, follow the following procedure to eliminate the history of the websites visited or the URLs in the Address Bar: click on Tools menu - the Internet Options - the Genera button. This moment, you will see the Browsing History region, and then choose the Delete tab here. Pick the Delete History tab to remove the history of websites visited by you. After this, you should click the Yes option. In the end, you can hit on the OK button to clear history on computer.

2. Clear the web catch

For Windows XP/2000/ME/NT/98/95 users, you have to follow the below steps: open Start menu - Search option - For Files or folders - All files and folders. Then you are able to type *.tmp in the file name filed to find out the files with tmp extension. Next you can hit on Search Now. Get rid of all the temporary files that appear in the right panel.

3. Clear Auto complete History

For this, you ought to follow the direction for clearing browser history above to clear you computer¡¯s Auto complete history.

4. Clear cookies

In Internet Explorer 7.0, visit Tools tab - Internet Options tab - General - Browsing History - Delete tab. Then click on the Delete Cookies tab in the Delete Browsing History. Click on the Yes button. Then click on the Close tab followed by another click on the OK button

5. Clear the Index.dat

The index.dat is more complicated to remove. Generally you cannot delete it completely by hand. If you must clear your index.dat file now, we recommend using software.

About the Author

Web security and computer speed is guaranteed by the importance of clear history on computer. So you should master how to clear history on computer and clear history periodically.

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