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re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 6:53 am Posted by Larry (1297 messages posted) If the person you are trying to spy on is an adult, you have no right to see they're browsing history secretly, no matter whether a husband/boyfriend or wife/girlfriend. If you don't trust them, spying on them is not going to improve the situation. If your subject is an underage child, research and purchase appropriate parental control software and advise the child that it's on the computer because they'll find out soon enough that it has been installed anyway. On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 11:59 pm, RW wrote: >How do you prevent someone from deleting IE6 history files? When the History is >deleted (e.g. through Tools, Internet Options, Clear History, or by opening the History >panel and deleting the 'day' shown), is that data still held in a file somewhere >on the hard drive? Is there some type of program that I can install that will send >a copy of all the history files to my email account? THANKS, RW [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 11:54 am Posted by RW (8 messages posted) Thank you 4 your reply Larry. No the person is not a adult it is my teenager who all of a sudden keeps deleting the history files after he has been on the computer. We have talked about this but he still keeps deleting the files!!! I know all about parental control software but all of the ones I have looked at are very restrictive & I didn't want to go that far as locking him out of the computer! I had parental software installed on our computer from the time he was 7 yrs. old until he got about 13. I thought having a honest discussion with him about the do's & don'ts of using the computer he had learned & would abide by my rules BUT I GUESS NOT!!! So yes I will have to put parental control software back onto our computer! In the future please do not play judge & jury with your sermon about spying on people I think most people who use this site are adults or are very computer savvy & they know all about how to buy software to spy on someone if that's what they are all about! If you are going to take the time to answer someones post we can do without the lecture about morals & right or wrong! I just wanted to know how I could let my son know that if he kept deleting the history files I had a way of checking where he has been. To let him know that don't even think about surfing sites he knows I wouldn't approve of! We have had this open discussion but I guess teenagers will be teenagers & they still try & test the water where they know they don't belong! THANK YOU, RW ***************************************** On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 6:53 am, Larry wrote: >If the person you are trying to spy on is an adult, you have no right to see they're >browsing history secretly, no matter whether a husband/boyfriend or wife/girlfriend. >If you don't trust them, spying on them is not going to improve the situation. If >your subject is an underage child, research and purchase appropriate parental control >software and advise the child that it's on the computer because they'll find out >soon enough that it has been installed anyway. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:38 pm Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) Reg key to grey out Clear History. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel If you get to the Microsoft key folder and don't see keys for Internet Explorer\Control Panel, you'll need to add Internet Explorer as a subkey of Microsoft and Control Panel as a subkey of Internet Explorer. Go into the Control Panel key folder and create a new DWORD value (REG_DWORD). Name it History. Right-click the History value and choose Modify. Change the data from 0 to 1. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Monday, February 26, 2007 at 12:47 am Posted by RW (8 messages posted) Thank you, Steve I will try what you suggested to help solve my problem. Again THANKS, RW On Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:38 pm, Steve wrote: > >Reg key to grey out Clear History. > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel > > > If you get to the Microsoft key folder and don't see keys for Internet Explorer\Control >Panel, you'll need to add Internet Explorer as a subkey of Microsoft and Control >Panel as a subkey of Internet Explorer. > > > Go into the Control Panel key folder and create a new DWORD value (REG_DWORD). >Name it History. Right-click the History value and choose Modify. Change the data >from 0 to 1. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Monday, February 26, 2007 at 9:23 pm Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) Your welcome. Greying out the Clear History Button worked on My Sisters Teen, I also removed the Run Box afterwards, to make regedit harder to get to. It's easy to add, and remove Run Box, but most Kids don't realize where the feature is at, or know how to use Google to find directions to get it back. If the Teen is pretty good with a Computer then none of this will really work. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Friday, September 21, 2007 at 12:03 pm Posted by William Ryan (1 messages posted) Steve - any chance you can elaborate on how to add the key? I want to try this on my kids PC, but couldnt figure out how to do it.... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Friday, September 21, 2007 at 2:22 pm Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) What key [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do I prevent someone from deleting the history files from IE6 & can they be recovered? Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:47 am Posted by Peter (1 messages posted) Thanks Steve that worked worderfully for my teenage daughter!!! On Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:38 pm, Steve wrote: > >Reg key to grey out Clear History. > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel > > > If you get to the Microsoft key folder and don't see keys for Internet Explorer\Control >Panel, you'll need to add Internet Explorer as a subkey of Microsoft and Control >Panel as a subkey of Internet Explorer. > > > Go into the Control Panel key folder and create a new DWORD value (REG_DWORD). >Name it History. Right-click the History value and choose Modify. Change the data >from 0 to 1. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum