Users who value privacy can delete their browsing history from their computer, thereby hiding their recent activities on the network. To do this, you need to perform certain actions within the system, as well as use the settings of Internet browsers.
Instructions
Step 1
The ability to delete the history of visiting sites from a computer is available in every Internet browser, including the popular Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Yandex and others. Go to the main browser menu. The "History of visits" item can be presented separately or be part of the general settings section of the program. Pay attention to the options available. Usually, you can clear site history for the current day, for the current week, month, or for all time. Check the checkbox of the options you want and press the button to perform the cleaning operation.
Step 2
You can go to the site history and delete information about visits from your computer in other ways. While in an open browser, press the key combination on the keyboard "Ctrl + H", which is especially helpful in browsers where it is difficult to find the corresponding section in the menu. Please note that in addition to deleting history, browsers usually offer to clear cookies, delete temporary forms and passwords, downloads and other information. Select these items too if you need to completely hide your Internet history.
Step 3
In the browser settings, look at the name of the folder on the computer where the downloads from the Internet are saved. Go to this folder and delete or move to another location on your hard disk all unnecessary things that can compromise your recent activities on the network, for example, images, archives, torrent files and other information.
Step 4
Configure the site history options in your browser. Usually in this section the function of disabling the saving of history is available. You can also activate the option to clear information about visited pages after closing the browser. If there are no such options in the program, try supplementing it with appropriate plugins - mini-applications that integrate into the browser and increase its functionality. You can download plugins through the "extensions" section of the menu. Search for history and history.
Step 5
To avoid the possibility of deleting the history of visiting sites from your computer every time, especially if you access the network from someone else's device, use the Internet through private mode. To call it, press the combination "Ctrl + Shift + N". In this mode, no data about the user's actions on the network is saved, so you can safely close the browser at the end of the work.
