Deleting History

[odyssey_scot]

nope, this isnt about the way modern societies change their history to suit themselves, this is actually a question about Microsoft Internet Explorer.

A friend of mine, who is not yet outta the closet, wants to log on to gaydargirls and rainbownetwork.com, stuff like that..
Thing is, when she deletes the history, the cookies, the temporary internet folder, etc, and restarts the computer, the History is still there. I mean it comes back, even though she deleted it.
So if you guys out there could give me a list of everything you need to do to make sure everythings gone, that'd be great.
what i've said to her is
a) delete history, cookies and autocomplete
b) do a diskcleanup, to delete temporary files
c) check anyways to make sure that all temp files and cookies are gone
d) set options to disable cookies if she really has to

[Disco_Kev]

I had a problem like that on a family computer before. I went through all the steps you've listed there Od. The one I missed was the AutoComplete option. That seemed to clear thing up for me. (The computer kept going to gaycork.com when I started to type google) Other than that try using Explore to delete files in the temp, or use Disk Clean up. I am sure the computere experts here will have a better idea. Anyway I really gotta get back to work. I have a meeting with my supervisor on Monday. She has been at her holiday home in Kerry for 4 or 5 weeks and I need to have some evidence of work done. Why do all the computers have to be alway on-line?

[redbulljunkie]

No, I think Tank_Girl's got it pretty much covered. Although with Internet Explorer it's hard to tell, it's the browser designed from ground up to out gay teenagers when they least suspect it. I generally feel a lot safer with a browser like Mozilla Firebird which has all it's privacy options on the same page, so you can run down the list clearing stuff without worrying about missing something.

Although with later versions of Internet Explorer, I found bringing up the History, then deleting the individual history item for gaycork, does a good job of getting rid of both the history entry itself and the autocomplete entry in the address bar, without raising suspicions as to why the entire history was deleted.