Hi,

I want to delete my browsing history completely from a pc. I had done all the usual, tools, internet options & delete. I have also used the Vista search function and found a couple of folders containing relevant material and deleted those. I have deleted the cookies manually by unhiding the directory and sniping those out.

HOWEVER,

if I type the name of a site into the VISTA search - a string of references appear above - as if they are still in the browing history - but they are not as I have deleted them.

Is there some other reference I need to delete somewhere? perhaps some sort of shadow directory structure?

The references appear as http// etc above - but these do not lead anywhere if I click on them. They must be embedded in some some sort of script somewhere.

can anyone point me in the right direction?

many thanks

I wouldnt use Ccleaner, a much safer alternative is iePrivacyKeeper:

Download IE Privacy Keeper, Flash Saving Plugin, etc.

If you want a regcleaner as well iv been using the one built into Tune Up Utilities for the last two years and have had no problems:

http://www.tune-up.com/download/

Hi,

Many thanks for your responses.

I think I follow your thinking. As I am using the VISTA search the "reference" must be on my PC somewhere.

for example I type in "autotrader" into the VISTA search and a list of http//autotrader.... web page links appear in the grey box above - that is part of the search function. if I click on them - they just take me to google (my homepage) as the references should have been removed - I deleted these out of my history and it isn;t in my favourites.

So this reference must be stored somewhere else - perhaps in the registry? I'll try the privacy keeper one below (thanks for the hint) if it is the safer one and give the PC a good cleaning - hopefully that will sort it out

thanks again

Hi,

thanks for that link - but that's not what I mean - probably just my bad description

if you click on the "windows" button at the bottom left corner of the screen you get a search option -- it says "start search"

it examines all the PC files - the files are located there

I've attached a screenshot (I hope)

this particular example is for a site called zeno. The "links" that teh Vista search shows are no longer there as I have deleted them from everywhere I can think of - yet they still appear in the Vista Search.

I hope that's clarified.

thanks for coming back to me

Hi - thanks - I've just got home so I'll download that and try it out tonight - hopefully that will do the trick

you(s) have all been very helpful

thanks again

No problem. Just remember that search bar lists everything on your pc so for example if you type "msn" into it it will come up with a list as msn is in your Internet Explorer favorites.