Part of a maintaining a healthy computer is cleaning your personal details – this includes learning how to delete history. Not just history of your programs, but history of your web browser too.

No matter what you do, online or offline, your computer remembers it. This includes videos you have watched, images you’ve seen, words you’ve searched for, and files that you have downloaded. Individual programs can even remember what they were used for – for example, Windows media player will remember all the videos or clips that are played on it.

With this much information out there, every computer user needs to learn how to manage and erase their digital history.

Knowing how to delete history will depend on what kind of history you are trying to erase.  If you are trying to erase the history of a specific program, then each program should have its own settings and preferences page where you can get rid of the remembered items.

However, not all programs make it easy to delete their history….

With regards to Google and other search engines, there are other factors to consider. Your search history is saved by your web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Previous searches can be seen under the History menu, or even by typing in the search bar, where commonly visited sites will appear automatically.

We  recommend scanning with PC Health Advisor to remove the history of items you have searched for online, as well as the history of programs you have used. It is the most reliable, the most in-depth, and the most complete way to scrub your personal history from your PC.

PC Health Advisor is a multi-purpose product, taking care of malware, registry errors, and most importantly for this article, privacy items. PC Health Advisor scans the following areas with each scan:

• Windows entries
• Internet browsing history, including temporary files, websites visited, auto-complete forms, downloaded files, and address bar history
• Chat and IM history
• MS office history
• Multimedia history
• File-sharing history
• Email history
• Third-party application history

If you want to learn how to delete history, and if maintaining your privacy is truly important to you, then PC Health Advisor is the answer. Click below to download now.

Once you have completed a scan, you can click “Clean Privacy Files” for a history clean, or click “Fix All” to repair the additional items deleted. Either way, you can rest assured that your history will be deleted – for good.

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