Learn Vista - Deleting and Managing Browsing History on Internet Explorer 7

When you're opening a website in Internet Explorer, all associated files to the website including webpage contents, images, style sheets, scripts, etc, are stored in particular location in harddisk. Internet Explorer 7 allows you to delete them for privacy reason as well as managing all related settings.

To Delete Browsing History:

- From Internet Explorer toolbar, click Tools > Internet Options.

- On Internet Options window, click General Tab. Then in the Browsing history section, click Delete button.

- On the Delete Browsing History window, you'll see there are five types of information that you can delete (Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, and Passwords). Click the Delete button next to the specific category of information which you want to delete. Or click Delete all button if you wish to delete all stored information. Next, click Close button.

- On Internet Options window, click OK button.


Managing Browsing History Settings:

You can manage how IE updates/checks for newer versions of stored pages, size of disk space used to store them, the location, and the age of stored information, through the Temporary Internet Files and History Settings window.

To open the window, click Tools > Internet Options. Then on Internet Options window, click General Tab. And in the Browsing history section, click Settings button.

Now, on that window, you can arrange every settings about browsing history. Don't forget to click OK button to implement all changes you make.