Tip #2226 - IE History Viewer
Printer Friendly Version | E-Mail This Tip
IE
History Viewer
An interesting e-mail
came across my inbox the other day. It was from a gentleman who wanted
to “prune” his Internet Explorer’s auto complete history.
Though I have never performed this procedure before, I naively thought
that it would be a simple procedure and a good tip for our readers. So,
I sat down and started doing a little research about this particular file
and found that this feature has actually three different folders that
it uses together to determine the history of your browser. Not only is
the information spread out over three locations in your system, but it
is also cryptic and very difficult to view.
As you can see, the
task proved to be a little harder than I initially expected. So what do
you do next? You look for a third party program that will hopefully grant
you the capabilities to perform your necessary tasks. And of course, the
next step is to find a third party program that can adequately perform
the task for free. Well, folks, that is the Download of the Week’s
framework, and by George, I think I’ve done it again.
Say "hi"
to my new little friend, IE History Viewer. It is a small
program that gives you the ability to manage yours and even others' Internet
History auto complete. IE History Viewer allows you to easily pull down
and view your IE history in a legible table type of interface. Within
this interface, you can sort, search, visit, move, save, delete and export
URLs as easy as if they were text documents in a folder. The save and
open features are really cool also. You can prune out your history list
by getting rid of the undesirables and then save the URLs you want in
a folder as an archive. You can also go through and simply delete an entry
or two and leave the rest of the auto complete history intact. It's perfect
for shopping online for somebody else. It's a good way to cover your tracks
while you're online without looking suspicious.
You are able to view
the Internet history of any users on the system, as long as you are the
administrator of that particular PC. You can also view the history on
PCs that may be connected to the same local network you are. Again, you
must have the administrator's permission on the remote machine you wish
to connect to. You can even run the IE History Viewer from a thumb drive,
an MP3 player (only flash type of MP3 players) or even from memory cards,
such as a camera card. How cool is that?
Well, there you have
it. A cool little program that gives you some capabilities that are not
originally found in Windows. Also, the program doesn't really install.
It runs in place without needing to place files on your system. This means
there is no hard drive overhead, unless you start saving a bunch of history
files on your system. And even then, they are saved as text, html or even
Xml, so they don't take up any room.
Download the IE History
Viewer here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html
Note that the link is near the bottom of the page.
~ Chad
Want To Comment On This Tip? Click Here! We'd love to hear from you :-)
Like These Tips? Get 'Em Free In Your E-mail
