Sometimes it happens like this - I accidentally came across a certain site on the Internet, but immediately did not pay much attention to it and did not attach any significance to the find. And suddenly, a week later, I needed exactly the information that was published on this resource.
How can you now find the information you need? I don't remember the website address. The resource has not been bookmarked. There is a solution - find the desired web page in your browser history.
Now viewing the history of actions on the computer will depend only on whether browsing history is configured or whether, in the interests of protecting personal data, all surfing was carried out in Private mode. It may also be necessary to see whether the computer was running at a certain time.
View your browsing history
To find the desired page in the browser, you need to take the following steps
- Launch the browser.
- Enter the Tools or Settings menu (this depends on the type of browser).
- Open the History item.
By looking through the entire list of visits in a row, in the end, you will be able to find the desired page and site. After that, you need to click on the link and in a minute the lost information is before your eyes.
Indeed, a convenient thing. Provided that the user is not afraid of surveillance and is not worried that information about the sites visited may fall into third hands.
Browser Mozilla Firefox
In this browser, history is called “Log”. The magazine is located directly in the Firefox menu.
Opera browser
In Opera, the tab is called “History”. When viewing history, you can use a convenient search.
Google Chrome browser
In Google Chrome, you can view your browsing history in the “History and recent tabs” menu item.
Personal data protection issues
If the user is interested in maintaining the privacy of surfing, then you can completely disable saving your browsing history in the browser settings.
If you want to hide the history of a single visit to the site from indiscreet eyes, then the easiest way before starting surfing is to select the Private Browsing item in the browser’s File menu. In this case, the history will not be saved only for this surfing session.
History of working with documents in applications
If you are not interested in surfing the Internet, but what files you have been working with recently, in this case the problem is completely solvable. Again - unless saving file opening history has been disabled.
Many applications such as text editors, graphics programs save the history of working with documents. Typically, at the very bottom of the File menu, a list of the last 10 working documents is shown.
Number of saved open files can be configured in the Program Options using the system capabilities of the computer. You need to open the Start menu and find Recent Documents. There will be a list of files that have been worked with in recent days. Again, unless the Start menu settings prohibit saving history.
View a complete history of all events on your computer
Windows Event Log
Windows has a special log where a great many events are stored. There you can see when the computer turned on, what updates were installed, what failures occurred, and so on.
In order to get into this log, you need to open the Control Panel, open “Administration” in it, and then double-click on the “Event Viewer” shortcut. And you find yourself in a journal in which you can view many entries. It would take too long to describe all the possibilities. Open it for yourself and see how much data there is.
Third-party software for viewing history
Unfortunately, in operating systems There is no option to view all events in full. The problem is solved by installing a special software eg History Viewer.
We are not talking about spying and spying at all. Programs for monitoring activity on computers are usually used by employers to monitor performers - the client wants to know how work on the project is going.
In Western countries, the hourly method of payment for work is common. So that the customer can check whether all paid hours have actually been worked in good faith, a tracker program is installed on the contractor’s computer, which sends the client a screenshot from the desktop screen every few minutes.
Other types of programs can collect an absolutely complete history of all events on the controlled computer:
- What programs worked, when and for how long.
- How much Internet traffic does each program consume?
- What sites were visited?
- How long did it take to edit the document in the editor?
- And much more, from which the employer can draw conclusions about the employee’s integrity.
Some of these trackers are intended for professional use in offices and production - the program is installed on the computers of all employees with the results displayed on a monitor in the office of the boss or other supervising responsible employee.
Based on the results of work periods, such programs automatically generate reports and graphs, diagrams on which you can clearly see what percentage of the employee’s working time was spent working on tasks, and how much time was spent on Odnoklassniki.
Parental Controls
Advanced parents install such activity monitoring programs on their home computer to keep an eye on their child.
- How much time did you spend studying?
- How much did you play computer games?
- Who did you communicate with on social networks?
- Did you do anything forbidden?
On the other hand, there have been cases where advanced children conducted such monitoring of their parents. And then they blackmailed moms and dads into buying something or demanding a relaxation of the regime.
You came home, rested and decided to check your email. But when we approached the computer, we noticed that the mouse was out of place, the keyboard was moved, and in general the case was warm. Considering that everyone at home has their own car, this fact seems strange. Why did you use your computer and for what purpose? This is still unknown. But in this article you will learn exactly how to view history on your computer.
View your browsing history in the browser
Let's face it: the first thing you'll want to check is your list of visited sites. To do this, open your browser (for example, I have Google Chrome) and in "Options" select "History".
Reference! To view history in other browsers, the same methods are used (except for entering the address “chrome://history/” in the line).
If anxiety and mistrust have settled in your soul, regularly clear the list of visited sites. 
Advice! To clear cache, history and other browser garbage, it is recommended to use CCleaner.
Viewing Log Files
All actions performed on the computer are recorded and documented. We only need to refer to this data to find out the information of interest.
Application log
This log stores information about all programs and games running on the computer. What is most important is that the exact time of launch and use is recorded. To open it, find the “Administration” item in the “Control Panel” and select “Computer Management”.
Recently modified files
Also in Windows you will find recently created, viewed and edited files. To do this, simultaneously press Win + R on your keyboard and enter “recent” in the text field.
In the window that opens, you can view your recent files.
How to restrict access to a computer and set a trap
If you are not interested in who used your computer, when and why, but it’s just unpleasant, set a password. Go to “Options” – “ Accounts» – “Login parameters”. Here click on the “Add” button and enter the desired combination.
Personal data is now harder to access.
Good day.
It turns out that not all users know that by default any browser remembers the history of the pages you visit. And even if several weeks, or maybe months, have passed, by opening the browser log, you can find the treasured page (unless, of course, you cleared your browsing history...).
In general, this option is quite useful: you can find a previously visited site (if you forgot to add it to your favorites), or see what other users sitting at this PC are interested in. In this short article I want to show how you can view your history in popular browsers, as well as how to quickly and easily clear it. So…
How to view your browsing history in your browser...
In most browsers, to open your website history, just press the button combination: Ctrl+Shift+H or Ctrl+H.
Google Chrome
In Chrome, in the upper right corner of the window there is a “list button”, when clicked, a context menu opens: in it you need to select the “History“ option. By the way, the so-called shortcut keys are also supported: Ctrl+H (see Fig. 1).
Rice. 1 Google Chrome
The history itself is a regular list of Internet page addresses, which are sorted depending on the date of visit. It is quite easy to find sites that you visited, for example, yesterday (see Fig. 2).
Rice. 2 History in Chrome
Firefox
The second most popular browser (after Chrome) at the beginning of 2015. To enter the journal, you can press the quick buttons (Ctrl+Shift+H), or you can open the “Journal” menu and from context menu select " Show entire log«.
By the way, if you don’t have a top menu (file, edit, view, log...) - just press the left “ALT” button on your keyboard (see Fig. 3).
Rice. 3 Opening a log in Firefox
By the way, in my opinion, Firefox has the most convenient visiting library: you can select links from yesterday, from the last 7 days, or from the last month. Very convenient when searching!
Rice. 4 Visit Library in Firefox
Opera
IN Opera browser viewing the history is very simple: click on the icon of the same name in the upper left corner and select “History” from the context menu (by the way, shortcut keys Ctrl+H are also supported).
Rice. 5 View history in Opera
Yandex browser
The Yandex browser is very similar to Chrome, so almost everything is the same here: click on the “list” icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select “ History/History Manager"(or simply press the Ctrl+H buttons, see Fig. 6).
Rice. 6 Viewing your visit history in the Yandex browser
Well latest browser, which I couldn’t just not include in the review. To view the history in it, just click on the “star” icon on the toolbar: then a side menu should appear in which you simply select the “Journal” section.
By the way, in my opinion, it’s not entirely logical to hide your visit history under the “star”, which most users associate with favorites...
Rice. 7 Internet Explorer…
How to clear history in all browsers at once
You can, of course, manually delete everything from your history if you don't want anyone to be able to view your history. Or you can simply use special utilities that will clear the entire history in all browsers in a matter of seconds (sometimes minutes)!
One of the most popular programs for Windows cleaning from "garbage". It also allows you to clean the registry from erroneous entries, remove programs that cannot be removed in the usual way, etc.
Using the utility is very simple: launch the utility, click the analysis button, then check the boxes where necessary and click the clear button (by the way, browser history is Internet History).
Rice. 8 CCleaner - cleaning history.
IN this review I couldn’t help but mention another utility that sometimes shows even better results in disk cleaning - Wise Disk Cleaner.
Alternative to CCleaner. Allows you not only to clean the disk from various types of junk files, but also to perform defragmentation (will be useful for speed work hard disk if you haven’t done it for a very long time).
Using the utility is just as simple (besides, it supports the Russian language) - first you need to click the analysis button, then agree with the cleaning points that the program has assigned, and then click the cleanup button.
That's all for me, good luck everyone!
You can view your history of web pages you've visited in any browser. Internet Explorer is no exception. Moreover, the Internet browser allows you not only to view the magazine, but also to sort them by date of visit, order and other characteristics. First, let's look at how to view the Internet Explorer log.
Where is the visit log located?
There are several ways to view the history of web pages that a user has visited. First, launch the browser. In versions 8 and higher, we will need to select the View menu section. It is located in the upper left corner of the Internet browser. In this section, open the Panel and click Journal in the list that opens.
Another method is no less simple. In the right corner of the browser, select Service. It may also be indicated by an asterisk. In the menu that appears, click Panel – Journal. After this, the user is presented with a history of visits to web resources. By default, they are listed by the date you viewed the sites. You can open the magazine in Internet Explorer using the hotkeys Ctrl, shift and H. You will find a complete list of hot keys with their functional purpose here.
Search visited sites
In the journal, you can sort pages by date (this is the default), by node, and by visiting order. So, to see what resources you were on today, click, respectively, Today. In addition, by clicking on the Yesterday or Last Week links, you will open a list of the sites you viewed on those dates.
In order to start searching, first open the Journal. In it, go to View by date and open the search log. In Internet Explorer 8, this line may appear as a search in the log. Now we enter either the full or partial name of the site in the search field. We wait a few seconds and the results appear in front of us. You can go to the desired resource by clicking on its name.
Deleting a log
Not every user wants to leave a list of the pages he visited in the browser. In this case, you will need to know how to delete your visit log. This procedure is as simple as possible in all versions of the Internet browser from Microsoft.
You can delete your history partially, within a certain period of time. In this case, you will need to open the Journal, select the period that you want to delete, for example, Today and right-click. In the list of actions that opens, click Delete. The same can be done if you need to delete just one resource. In this case, we highlight only its name.
You can completely clear the history in Internet Explorer by clicking Tools. In it we find and click on the lines Delete browser history. The same action is done using command line. To do this, select Security. In the section, click Delete browser or browser history. In addition, you can use hotkeys by simultaneously pressing Ctrl, shift and Del. The window that appears will allow you to clear the entire history when you click on the delete button.
It should be noted that you can use incognito mode when visiting sites; in this case, deleting your browsing history will not be necessary. In Internet Explorer it is called private browsing. The developers also provided the ability to restore the last session at the next start in the event of an unscheduled shutdown. As you can see, the browser has quite a lot of functions designed for the convenience of users, but if you still don’t like it, then you can always. Therefore, if you were on a site, but forgot its address, you can always access the history in Internet Explorer. Moreover, it will be quite easy to find a resource if you use sorting according to some principle.
You came home, rested and decided to check your email. But when we approached the computer, we noticed that the mouse was out of place, the keyboard was moved, and in general the case was warm. Considering that everyone at home has their own car, this fact seems strange. Why did you use your computer and for what purpose? This is still unknown. But in this article you will learn exactly how to view history on your computer.
View your browsing history in the browser
Let's face it: the first thing you'll want to check is your list of visited sites. To do this, open your browser (I use Google Chrome, for example) and select “History” in “Options.”
Also, the list of visited sites is called up by simultaneously pressing Ctrl+H or by writing in address bar"chrome://history/".
Reference! To view history in other browsers, the same methods are used (except for entering the address “chrome://history/” in the line).
If anxiety and mistrust have settled in your soul, regularly clear the list of visited sites. 
Viewing Log Files
All actions performed on the computer are recorded and documented. We only need to refer to this data to find out the information of interest.
Application log
This log stores information about all programs and games running on the computer. What is most important is that the exact time of launch and use is recorded. To open it, find the “Administration” item in the “Control Panel” and select “Computer Management”.
Recently modified files
Also in Windows you will find recently created, viewed and edited files. To do this, simultaneously press Win + R on your keyboard and enter “recent” in the text field.
In the window that opens, you can view your recent files.
How to restrict access to a computer and set a trap
If you are not interested in who used your computer, when and why, but it’s just unpleasant, set a password. Go to “Settings” – “Accounts” – “Sign-in Options”. Here click on the “Add” button and enter the desired combination.
Personal data is now harder to access.
