Whether you know it or not, your computer is always keeping a track of your activities while you are on it. All information like your login names, passwords, visited websites, downloaded files and credit card numbers disclosed while surfing the Internet, are all stored in the browser history files, cookies and temporary Internet files of the computer.
It is important that you remember to clear the history of all these files on a periodical basis to ensure the privacy of your PC. Moreover, every time you surf the Internet, windows works at saving information about your activity so that it can provide you with a much better computer experience.
Others may keep track of you
However, although the intentions of Windows may be good, the tracking of the computer activity tends to compromise on your privacy while letting others see what you have been doing, running, saving, downloading and even what documents and files you had opened.
Even the applications history provided by Windows-provided dialogs for open and save operations is recorded. So whenever you open or save items from the application’s file menu you find a drop down list of the files that you had most recently used and even open some directories.
Easy access to information may prove dangerous to you
All related information is stored in a Windows registry and is thus easily viewed by anyone. In addition to the open and save applications, other applications you use tend to keep tab on history tracks so that you get a better computer experience.
Examples are Word and Excel that store information about files that were recently opened and worked with, Google Toolbar remembers all the words you had used for searches, etc.
Although all this may make it easy for you to access information, all this stored information can compromise on your privacy as everyone has access to your personal data and know where you have been on the Internet.
Keep on reading to find out how it is possible to erase your tracks in the Internet by clearing history tracks…
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