computer question
- Thread starter jenbengen
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mainman
Set Trippin
Nah, he got away with it this time...Once you delete your internet history, is there a way to go back and see what sites were visited on your hard drive? I figured one of you computer savvy persons could answer this.
jenbengen
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Toxick
Splat
Nope.
Well - let me qualify that.
How were they deleted?
If someone cleaned out their internet history using CCleaner, or something like it, and they used one of the deep delete functions, then it's gone forever.
If it was deleted with Explorer and the Delete Key, then its possible to retrieve it, but there are no guarantees, and it's seldom worth the effort.
There are various Undelete utilities (at least there used to be many hundreds of years ago when I bothered with such things) which can scan your drive for files which are "deleted". When a file is normally deleted, it's not wiped from the drive. The File System merely removes its pointers to it. So if the data is there it can be retrieved.
The caveat with that is, unreferenced disk space (i.e. deleted files) can be overwritten at any time, and with most files, even if a single byte is modified, the entire file is worthless, so using an undelete utility is a crap-shoot, at best.
NeonImpact
How You Doing?
someone was being sneaky. 
GWguy
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Once you delete your internet history, is there a way to go back and see what sites were visited on your hard drive? I figured one of you computer savvy persons could answer this.
The quick answer is no. Once you delete your history AND your Cookies AND your TEMP files, there is no apparent trace of where you have been.
HOWEVER, with the right forensic tools, that information can be recovered. Those tools are not typically something that someone would have.
jenbengen
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jenbengen
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mainman
Set Trippin
.............. exactly...Nah, he got away with it this time...
GWguy
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Naw.... I'll bet she was shopping on line and didn't want him to find out......
basher
LEET
Open up Windows Explorer
Click Tools, then Folder Options
Click the View tab
Make sure the "Show hidden files and folders" is checked
now go to C:\Documents and Settings\
open up the username
open up Local Settings
sometimes you can still find temporary internet files on here, not the history, but you may find some .jpg and .mpg that didn't get deleted
BTW, this is assuming you have Windows XP, i'm not sure about Vista
Click Tools, then Folder Options
Click the View tab
Make sure the "Show hidden files and folders" is checked
now go to C:\Documents and Settings\
open up the username
open up Local Settings
sometimes you can still find temporary internet files on here, not the history, but you may find some .jpg and .mpg that didn't get deleted
BTW, this is assuming you have Windows XP, i'm not sure about Vista
dolemite
New Member
Once you delete your internet history, is there a way to go back and see what sites were visited on your hard drive? I figured one of you computer savvy persons could answer this.
stop looking @porn @ work you wouldn't have that problem....