What Would Happen if Your Wife Knew What You Were Doing on The Internet?
The hard drive of your computer stores several temporary Internet files
apart from saving browsing histories while you surf the Internet. Even your offline activities lay hidden in some obscure corners of the PC. Imagine that you are up to something like visiting porn sites or having some juicy discussions with a girlfriend online and all this information gets saved into your machine so that the same gets displayed when your wife looks around after logging into the same machine. Did you say DISASTER? Well, you are absolutely right. If your wife comes to know about your online activities that may be quite embarrassing for you, not only will your image of a successful and sensitive husband take a beating but so will your conjugal life. Moreover, if your wife spills the beans in front of your relatives or friends, the situation will worsen. Perhaps you now understand why you need to erase your Internet history after every browsing session so that your wife is unable to know about your secrets. This will also give you peace of mind.
Before knowing the steps to erase Internet history from your PC, you should know what browsing histories and temporary files are all about. To begin with, browsing histories are the trails of web pages that you have visited. On the other hand, temporary files are nothing but cache files. These can be some pictures that your browser has stored to let you access them again without difficulty.
If you are using Internet Explorer, you can erase your Internet history by choosing the “Internet Options” from the Tools menu at first. Next, click on the “General” tab when the Internet Options window pops up. For wiping out cached files, choose the “Delete” button in the Browsing section. A window will appear where you will find several sections like Form Data, Passwords, Cookies, Temporary Internet Files and History. For erasing some selected files, click the corresponding buttons that you notice in this section. However, to erase your entire Internet history using a single click, select the “Clear History
” or “Delete All” button located at the lower part of your browser window.
If Firefox is your preferred browser, open the drop down box by selecting “Tools” and afterward click on “Clear Private Data”. The window that pops up will have different sections like Browsing History, Saved Passwords, Cookies, Search History and Saved Form. Check the corresponding boxes from this segment for erasing chosen items. However, to erase your Internet history totally, click the button labeled “Clear Private Data Now”.
Users of AOL (America Online) browser need to locate the “Settings” button at their browser window’s top section. They will need to click on it at first and then go for “Preferences”. The next step is to select “toolbar and sounds” and subsequently click the button marked “clear history trail now
” to get their Internet history deleted from the PC.
To safeguard your privacy totally, you should also remove any third party applications that are installed on your computer. As these applications store passwords, text, images and some other sensitive statistics in your hard drive, not deleting them will make your browsing habits vulnerable to be known by your wife who uses the same PC.