

A later tutorial will explain how to customize your history settings. The amount of time Internet Explorer will keep your browsing history stored on your computer is entirely configurable by default, Internet Explorer remembers your web surfing tracks for 20 days. How long does Internet Explorer keep recent websites in History? The limitations of searching your internet history are explained in the following section. (If the search takes too long, you can always hit Stop to cancel the search.)Īs shown on the screenshot, Internet Explorer will load the matching websites right below click on any of the results to load that particular web page or file. Select " Search History" from the dropdown menu, and type one or more search terms click on " Search Now", and Internet Explorer will start looking for relevant pages from your browsing history. If you have trouble remembering the name of a website and when you visited it, Search History comes to the rescue: with this feature, Internet Explorer allows you to type a few keywords to search your entire recent web surfing history and matching web pages: Search your browsing history in Internet Explorer Finally, Internet Explorer includes a " Search History" feature, discussed below.Click on " View by Order Visited Today", and Internet Explorer displays all the web pages you visited today (not grouped by website this time), from latest at the top, to earliest in the day at the bottom.This is a useful trick to quickly load sites you visit often, but have not added to your Favorites (bookmarks). With " View by Most Visited", Internet Explorer displays a filtered view of the 20 websites you visit most often (based on recent history)." View by Site" loads all the websites currently stored in your recent browsing history by domain name, alphabetically." View by Date", the default sorting order, and organizes your history by time period.(And click the "x" button to hide the history pane.) Sort your browsing history by Date, Site, Most Visited, or "Today"īy default, Internet Explorer sorts your browsing history by date, as we saw earlier click on the dropdown menu though, and you have more options: Note that you can also make the history pane narrower or wider by resizing using its right border. If you plan on spending time surfing through your history, you can "dock" the History panel to make it stay open: click on the Pin button (see screenshot), and your history stays opened, docked alongside the left border of your Internet Explorer window. Keep Internet Explorer's history pane open, docked on the left Once you click on a history period, Internet Explorer will expand that section, and provide a listing of all the websites visited, by domain name: click on any of the domains, and Internet Explorer displays the web pages and files you accessed from that particular website:Įach of the entries below a visited website is clickable, and will load the corresponding page.Ĭlick again on the domain to collapse its sub pages. Press Ctrl+H to directly open the History tab.īy default, your browsing history is sorted by date - simply click on " Today", " ", " Last Week", " 2 Weeks Ago", or " 3 Weeks Ago" to load the websites and web pages you visited during that particular period. Choose Enabled and tap OK in the setting's window.To view your browsing history in Internet Explorer, click on the Favorites button on the left of your browser tabs, and click on the History tab: Locate the setting in Computer Configuration (or User Configuration)/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer/Delete Browsing History, and then double-click it.Ģ. Two sub-procedures are illustrated below for your better reference.ġ. Step 2: Find and enable the setting named " Allow deleting browsing history on exit" in Computer Configuration and User Configuration. Step 1: Turn on Local Group Policy Editor. Way 3: Erase browsing history and cookies in Local Group Policy. Step 4: Complete the 2nd, 3rd and 4th steps of Way 1. Step 3: Tap Delete browsing history and cookies to move on. Way 2: Delete browsing history and cookies in Control Panel. Then, choose Delete in the Delete Browsing History dialog. Step 3: Choose Cookies and website data to delete. Step 2: Select Delete browsing history on exit and tap Delete on this interface. the small gear icon) on the top-right corner and choose Internet options on the menu. Step 1: In Internet Explorer, click the Tools icon (i.e.

Way 1: Clear cookies and browsing history in Internet Explorer.
