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What is browser history?--March 2, 2011--Posted by John Gullage

What is browser history?
For most computer users, it is difficult to make out how the computer works or the computer operation theory. It seems that others can not know what websites we visited if we close the websites. Actually, almost all of our actions on the computer are recorded in the particular positions. Some browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, are used frequently. All the web addresses you visited, the files and pictures you read are saved in a file folder which is in the browser. The files, folders, websites and pictures you read or visited are called browser history. If necessary, all these can be found out.

What are cookies?
Computer cookies are often referred to by computer users. However, what are cookies? It is a kind of technology that allows the server to save a small amount of data to the client's hard disk or memory, or allows the server to read some data from the client's hard disk or memory. Cookie is a very small text file that is placed on the hard disk by web server when you visit a certain website. It can record your user ID, password, pages viewed, time spent on the website and other information. When you visit the same website again, the website reads cookies and obtains the relevant information, the corresponding actions are done immediately, for example, you don't have to enter your ID and passwords when you visit the same website again if you select the corresponding service. Cookies are peculiar to the particular computer user. It plays an important role in some cases.

Why you need to clean them?
Browser history and cookies are important in some cases. However, the side effects can not be overlooked. Nearly all of our actions on computer are recorded as browser history and cookies. It is more convenient when we want to visit the same website because we don't have to enter the ID and passwords. When we want to recover a certain file, it seems not to be so difficult. What will happen if your computer is attacked by malware, spyware or hackers? All your personal information will be accessed easily. It is much easier to know what you have done on your computer. The consequence is disastrous. If you want to keep your personal information or privacy in a safe environment, it is necessary and important to clean browser history and cookies completely. This will greatly enhance your computer security. Even if some bad activex or malicious plug-ins invade the browser without your recognition, the important information will not be stolen. Meantime, more system resources and disk space are spared since all the browser histories and internet cookies are cleaned in time. The operating system will run more steadily and faster. Your computer overall performance will be improved to a large extent.

How to clean them?
Most of us don't clean browser histories and cookies regularly because we don't know much about the internet browsers. You can clean the browser histories and cookies by yourself. For Internet Explorer, click 'Tool'-->Click 'Internet Option'-->turn to 'General’ tab-->Under 'Browsing History', click 'Delete', a prompt pops up and you can select cookie and history and then click 'Delete'. If you don't want to be bothered by this or you are not sure how to do that in details, you can ask for a favor from the professional tool. The 'Evidence Cleaner ' feature of XcomTools is the special tool to clean internet browser histories, cookies and temporal files, etc.. It scans your computer first and then cleans the found cookies and browser histories. If you don't want to delete all the files, you can select the files that you want to delete according to your own needs. It is easy-to-use and is able to clean the junk file completely.