IT Queries: Computer problems answered

How do you recover details of visited sites on the internet after you’ve deleted your browsing history?

One way is to run System Restore tool which we’ve described in a previous post.

This doesn’t always work and there are commercial tools that allow you to recover histories.

Internet Explorer history is kept in the index.dat file, it is possible to search the hard drive to find older copies of index.dat and then run a Dat file viewer.

It is a bit harder to recover Firefox history if the system restore doesn’t work. In that case, we’d recommend running a file recovery tool across the user’s profile, but this is a task which requires a trained computer tech.

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