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Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:18 am**

When you delete an item from the history, where does it go? Is it deleted completely off the hard drive?

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:27 pm**

Im not sure if this will be of any help. History is cleared yes but it is not gone for ever. In your cookies you will see a file called index.dat If you open it with notepad there is a record of all the sites you have been to. Now if you are running a program like CCleaner it keeps index.dat clean so the history will be lost from there. Thats one place that I know you can see were you have been once history is deleted though.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:12 pm**

robym6 lol what have you been doing on the net! lol

Just kidden

Venney

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:29 pm**

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:30 am**

As if you two are angels and havent been anywhere. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:04 am**

You assume that it is robym6 that is covering HIS tracks.... maybe he is looking at what others have been looking at.....

hehe

Good on ya

Junior

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:04 pm**

lol lawrence (me) has nouthing to hide lol, im a clean surfer! lol
I know nouthing or do nouthing illeagle or n e thing like that

Venney

+ liljim im sure is the same lol

Posted: **Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:23 am**

haha, reaaaal funny :wink:

...anyway i was just curious cuz i was looking for a site i had been to awhile back, but couldn't remember the address...

Posted: **Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:24 pm**

Like I said, open Index.dat in your cookies folder with Notepad and have a look see if the info is there. The page may look blank when you open it but scroll down the page, its there if you arent using something to clean it. After talking to a Microsoft MVP and him making an inquey with other MVP's you do lose your history permanently once you delete it

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