Web Use History Deletion

Visiting web sites results in various history files being stored on your computer.

Checking any of the boxes in the lower part of the Privacy tab of the GIE Settings/Control Panel will result in those items being removed from your computer once the last instance of Internet Explorer is closed down.
 


Pressing the red circle with the white "X" to the right of the text will result in those items being immediately removed from your computer.  Note that Windows will not allow three types of histories to be deleted while you are running Internet Explorer; those three histories are deleted upon closing down the last instance of IE.

A description of each item follows:
  • Typed URLs refers to the file completion mechanism where Internet Explorer tries to "guess" where you intended to go and fill in the URL once you started typing.   For instance, if you visited www.acme.com,  then the next time you went to type in that URL, Internet Explorer would suggest this URL once you typed the first few characters.  I.e. after typing "www.ac" IE would present you with a pull down menu of all sites you visited that started with "www.ac" 
     
  • Password History refers to passwords you have typed into online forms.
     
  • Form History refers to words and phrases you have typed in web-based online forms. Typical phrases typed in by most users are keywords for search engines, your name and credit card information.
     
  • Browser History refers to the history of web sites you visited.  If you press the history button in the Internet Explorer toolbar you will see a list of sites you have visited over the past days and/or weeks. 
     
  • Temporary Internet File refers to a list of files downloaded onto your computer during web browsing. These files include images which are cached on your machine in an attempt to avoid having to spend bandwidth downloading them again when you return to a site.  They also include many other types of files which can be used to reconstruct the history of your Internet actions. Tip: Select this if you are short on disk space.
     
  • Scrub Bookmarks will remove information secretly stored on your bookmarks.  This new type of data storage is called "persistent userData" and is used in a fashion very similar to cookies.  See Secret Data Stored in Your Bookmarks for more information about this new technique.
     
Note: The selected histories will be deleted automatically each time you close the last instance of Internet Explorer (and Windows Explorer if you have selected to allow Guard-IE to run in the Windows Explorer).

Press the "Scheduler" button to have allowable histories (those with Red Xs) deleted after the computer stays idle for some period of time.