Clear web browsing traces

-- History clearing
Although Computers are becoming more and more popular, it is still far from reaching the requirement of one employee in many units. For some reasons, it is still common for a computer to be used by you, by me, or by everyone. Without knowing it, the privacy of the materials you have edited, deleted files, browsed websites, and your personal information may be snooped up by others with ulterior motives. It's terrible! However, you don't need to worry about it. As long as you pay attention to the following aspects (taking Windows XP as an example), you can use your computer with peace of mind and truly achieve zero impact.
I. Clear the internal history of the Operating System
1. Clear historical records in "running"
The "run" menu in the Start Menu stores the program we run through it and the path and name of the opened file. 1.
Go to the Registry Editor and find the hkey_current _ User/sortware/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/esploier/runmru branch. Select unnecessary or unwanted records to delete.
2. Clear historical records in "Search"
(1) Clear the history of searching for computers
Go to the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Microsoft/search assistant/acmru/5647 branch, and delete unnecessary or unwanted records.
(2) Clear the history of searching for files
Go to the Registry Editor and find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Microsoft/search assistant/acmru/5603 branch. Select unnecessary or unwanted records to delete.
3. Clear historical records in "my recent documents"
Right-click on the taskbar to open the "Taskbar and Start Menu properties" dialog box. Click "Start Menu", "Custom", "advanced", and click "clear" to clear all recently accessed documents. 2.
If you only want to delete your records, go to the C:/documentsnnd settings/adminnisyror (your account)/recent folder in resource manager, delete the document you do not want others to see.
4. Do not display the name of the last adopter
Go to the Registry Editor, find the hkey _ local _ machine/software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/winlogin branch, create a new string value of "DontDisplayLastUsername", and set it to "1 ", after the restart, the user name of the last logon is no longer displayed. You can set it to "0" when the user name of the last logon is displayed.
5. Clear the "recycle bin"
In Windows, simply deleting a file transfers the file to the "recycle bin" and you can view it at any time. It is safer to press shift and then click "delete", or right-click "recycle bin" on the desktop and select "properties ", on the global tab, select "All Drives use the same Settings", then select "delete without moving the file back to the recycle bin, but directly Delete", and click "OK ".
6. Clear records on the clipboard
The clipboard sometimes hides too many of our secrets. If we don't shut down, we can leave directly. The next person on the computer just needs to press Ctrl + v, the information on the clipboard was stolen by others. You do not need to study how to clear the clipboard. You only need to use Ctrl + C to copy a piece of irrelevant content, and the original content will be overwritten.
7. Clear records in the temp folder
Many applications usually temporarily save your work results. before leaving the host, delete the Documents and Settings/Administrator (current Login User) that are stored in C:/(system installation drive letter) temporary files in the/Local Settings/TEMP directory.
Ii. Clear historical records in the Application
(1) Cleaning of historical records in network applications
1. IE browser
(1) Clear the web page history and previously viewed Web Sites
Right-click the IE icon on the desktop, click "Clear history" on the "General" tab, and set "days when the web page is saved in history" to "0 ", click "delete cookies", "Delete Files", and select "delete all offline content.
(2) Private Information entered during Internet cleaning
On the IE menu bar, Click Tools and Internet Options. On the content tab, click personal information, and then click auto complete ", A page named "Automatically complete Settings" is displayed. Click "clear form" and "Clear password. Leave the "Web address" blank to ensure your Internet security. 3.
(3) Clear the color footprint left by the Internet
On the IE menu bar, Click Tools and Internet Options. On the General tab, click auxiliary functions, in the displayed dialog box, select "do not use wed page specified color" in the format area, click "color", and select "use Windows color" in the color area ", in the link area, use the color palette to set the color of the unasked and accessed links to the same color. After confirmation, the user will not be able to see your browsing footprint. 4.
2. Outlook Express and Foxmail
When adding an email account, do not remember the password. For emails that have been received, you can save the emails to other directories on the hard disk, add password compression protection, or copy the emails to the mobile storage media, and then delete the emails completely.
3. QQ and MSN
By default, after you log on with this type of software, a folder named after your account is generated in the installation directory of the software to save your private information, such as chat records and friends list information. Therefore, you need to delete this directory when leaving the host.
4. Internet Express and Internet ant financial
When you use this tool to download materials, your download records will be retained in the software. to delete all the information in the "being downloaded" and "downloaded" folders, and clear the "deleted" folder. 5.
(2) clearing of historical records in office applications
1. Microsoft Office
(1) clear records in the "file" menu
We often use the office family of word, exce1 and other software for work, will leave a "record" in the "file" menu ".
Press the "CTRL + ALT +-(minus sign)" key, and the cursor changes to a minus sign. Open the "file" menu and click the file to be deleted with the minus sign.
You can also click the "Tools | options | General" tab, select the "List recent files" option, and enter "0" in the input box "; you can also remove the "tick" mark before the "list recently used Files" check box, and click "OK. In this way, the file you edited will not be saved in the File menu.
(2) Clear the "attribute" information of the Office document.
The "attribute" information of office documents may also be leaked. Right-click the document and select "properties" and "abstract". After the content in the "title" column is cleared, the title information in the property is no longer displayed when the mouse slides over the document. Alternatively, after opening the Office document, select "file", "attribute", and "summary information", and then clear the "title" column. 6.
2. WordPad
Go to the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/applets/WordPad/recent file list branch, delete all the corresponding primary key values, and restart the computer.
(3) Clear history records in other common applications
1. Media Player and other player software
Take Windows Media piayer 10 as an example. Select "Tools" and "options" from the menu and select "save file and URL history in player" on the "privacy" tab.
2. WinZip and WinRAR compression software
For WinZip, set "number of files in the most recent file list" to "1" in "Options | Settings | miscellaneous ", you can delete the compressed files that have been opened in the File menu.
For WinRAR, you only need to leave the "option | setting | General miscellaneous" item "Keep History of archive files" empty.