Internet Explorer builds up a history of the websites you've visited. Every so often, it can pay to clear it out. But what if you do this and didn't mean to? Can you undelete Internet Explorer history?
As always with Windows, there's more than one retort to this question.
The easy one is to use Windows built-in Restore feature.
At intervals, modern versions of Windows take a snapshot of your computer. These snapshots are called "restore points". If you normally setup software, it can be worth manually setting a restore point before going ahead with the software setup routine. That way, if something nasty happens you can get your ideas back to how it was.
The chances are that you'll have a reasonably recent restore point set by your system. It's then just a matter of running Windows Restore and you should get all your Internet Explorer history back.
But sometimes there are reasons that restore points don't exist.
Maybe you've changed your ideas settings so that they aren't automatically taken. Or maybe some malicious software has changed the setting for you. Or it may not even be safe to restore your ideas - maybe you've recently cleaned out a virus and the nearest restore point is unmistakably before you got rid of the thing. You probably don't want to go to the hassle of re-ridding yourself of a virus. Or the most recent ideas restore was taken before you installed a complex piece of software.
What can you do in these instances to undelete your Internet Explorer history?
Depending on what other software you are running, there's a occasion that there are some other files used by Internet Explorer to track your browsing history. These files are called index.dat and they may be secret by the ideas and will practically unmistakably be littered over your hard drive in a range of folders.
You can see why population use software to remove their tracks now, can't you?
So how do you go about finding these files?
Go to your Start menu and go for Search.
Choose the "For files and folders..." choice from the menu that appears.
Then go for the "All files and folders" option.
Several options will be given to you. The file name box needs to have "index.dat" in it (don't type in the quote marks).
Then click the "More advanced options" link and tick the "Search secret files and folders" choice as well as the options that are already pre-selected for you.
If Windows thinks you've got more than one hard drive, just go for "Local Disk (C:) from the drop down list.
Then click the crusade button and let Windows go off and present you with a list of files. You may want to go off and grab a coffee while it does this.
Whilst you could open these files in a word processor, they won't make much sense when you view them. So you're going to need a devotee piece of software to read them - just use your beloved crusade motor and crusade for "index.dat reader". Use the software you find to open these index.dat files and get your browsing history back.
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