For those who are interested in erasing their history of websites visited on the Internet for whatever reason, there is a fairly straightforward way to go about how to erase Internet history from Internet Explorer, or at least the basics of sites visited, cookies left behind and other items that are a normal part of operating within the Internet explorer environment.

What you want to try to do is to completely eliminate as much as possible and he tracking cookies or histories of searches you’ve conducted or visits to any other websites. You will also want to erase all histories related to “save”and “run” as well as any histories of documents that you’ve recently called up and opened. IE always takes care to create histories in this manner.

Therefore, go up to the “Tools” menu and click on it. It is usually in the upper right-hand corner in Internet Explorer 7 and above. From there click on the “Options” tab and look for the “delete all” button in left-click it. If you want, you can go down each erasure button and eliminate any cookies, saved forms and password data histories and also temporary files. As the basics go, that’s pretty much it.

Always understand, though, that erasing in such a way never completely eliminates all of the areas in which your Internet history has been left behind on a hard drive. If you want to carry out a more thorough erasure, he’ll need to find a commercial program that specializes in helping to erase in this manner. Some are actually free for download, and all will help erase a registry history

The first thing to do is to bring up an MS Explorer window and then right-click “C:drive” and then Search. Once that has been accomplished, click the “For Files and Folders” tab and then enter “index.dat” in the field that says “Filename.” Once you’ve done that, all you’ll need to do is upload a common commercial program that will help to overwrite the index.dat file history.

The above is a complete and very thorough erasure, but you should take care to be extremely careful while playing around in your index.dat and registry histories. For most, it’ll be sufficient just to use the “Tools” and then “Options” tabs and carrying off a normal erasure. If you want to go the thorough route, he’ll need to use a program consisting of a hex file editor.

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