View and delete your browsing history in Internet Explorer

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Your browsing history is the info that InternetExplorer stores on a PC asyousurf the web. To help improve your experience, this includes info you'veentered into forms, passwords, and sites you've visited. However, if you're using a shared or public PC, youmay not want InternetExplorer tosave your history.

By viewing your browsing history, you can choose to delete specific sites, or return to a webpage that you've already visited.

In InternetExplorer, select the Favorites button.

Select the History tab, and choose how you want to view your history by selecting a filter from the menu. To delete specific sites, right-clicka site from any of these lists and then select Delete. Or, return to a page by selecting any site in the list.

Regularly deleting your browsing history helps protect your privacy, especially if you're using a shared or public PC.

In InternetExplorer, select the Tools button, point to Safety, and then select Delete browsing history.

Choosethe types of data or files you want to remove from your PC, and then select Delete.

Types of info

What gets deleted

InternetExplorer version

Browsing history

The list of sites you've visited.

All

Cached images temporary Internet files

Copies of pages, images, and other media content stored on your PC. The browser uses these copies to load content faster the next time you visit those sites.

All

Cookies

Info that sites store on your PC to remember your preferences, such as your sign-in or your location.

All

Download history

The list of files you've downloaded from the web. This only deletes the list, not the actual files you've downloaded.

Only InternetExplorer 11 and InternetExplorer 10

Form data

Info that you've enteredinto forms, such as your email or a shipping address.

All

Passwords

Passwords that you've saved for sites.

All

Tracking Protection, ActiveX Filtering, and Do Not Track data

Websites you've excluded from ActiveX Filtering, and data that the browser uses to detect tracking activity.

All

Favorites

The list of sites that you've saved as favorites. Don't delete favorites if you only want to remove individual sitesthis will delete all of your saved sites.

All

InPrivate filtering data

Saved data used by InPrivate Filtering to detect where sites might be automatically sharing details about your visit.

Only for InternetExplorer 9 and InternetExplorer 8

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View and delete your browsing history in Internet Explorer