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Guest
Is there any way to recover the history after it has been deleted?
J
Jan Il
Hi lucky 
Perhaps. You might try the following and see if it helps:
There is a chance that your history may still be there. The history usually
lives in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\history
But on older (Windows based) operating systems it could be in:
C:\WINDOWS\history
C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES
C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5
C:\WINDOWS\OFFLINE WEB PAGES
C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLOADED PROGRAM FILES
also...
It is possible that browser history may be easier to recover than regular
files, which certainly can be overwritten. For instance, IE also maintains
a parallel but hidden file with a .dat extension that is NOT "cleaned" when
you delete regular history. Because it's a still existing (but hidden)
file, it doesn't get overwritten. Actually, fully eliminating browser
history information from your hard drive is a bit challenging, and special
utilities are sold to make sure the drive is swept clean.
There is also free undelete or recovery programs here you might try.
http://www.datastoragesearch.com/qry/free+file+recovery+program
If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.
Hope this helps
Jan
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Perhaps. You might try the following and see if it helps:
There is a chance that your history may still be there. The history usually
lives in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\history
But on older (Windows based) operating systems it could be in:
C:\WINDOWS\history
C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES
C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5
C:\WINDOWS\OFFLINE WEB PAGES
C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLOADED PROGRAM FILES
also...
It is possible that browser history may be easier to recover than regular
files, which certainly can be overwritten. For instance, IE also maintains
a parallel but hidden file with a .dat extension that is NOT "cleaned" when
you delete regular history. Because it's a still existing (but hidden)
file, it doesn't get overwritten. Actually, fully eliminating browser
history information from your hard drive is a bit challenging, and special
utilities are sold to make sure the drive is swept clean.
There is also free undelete or recovery programs here you might try.
http://www.datastoragesearch.com/qry/free+file+recovery+program
If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.
Hope this helps
Jan
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