How to delete recently viewed item history - Computers & Internet

1. Open the Phone app, then tap Recents to view a list of recent calls.
2. Tap Edit.
3. Delete your entire call history or a specific call. To clear all history, tap Clear, then tap Clear All Recents. To clear a single call, tap the Delete button , then tap Delete.

You can delete history from Google Chrome very easily. Just follow these steps.
1) First click on an icon displayed in following image. you can find this icon below close button on google chrome. then go to History & then click on History.


2) Now you will see all your browsing history. At bottom of history you will see the Clear browsing data button. Just click on that.



3) After clicking you will the following window will open, here just click on displayed Clear browsing data button at below of window.



Now you have successfully cleared browsing history of google chrome.

Well, it depends which browser are you using.
If you are using "chrome" the use the following procedure:
In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu
Click History and recent tabs > History.
Check the box next to each webpage that you want to remove from your History.
At the top of the page, click the button Remove selected items.
A confirmation box will appear. Click Remove.

If you are using "safari" then use the following procedure:
Choose History > Clear History, click the pop-up menu, then choose how far back you want your browsing history cleared.

If using "firefox" the use the following procedure:
Click the menu button New Fx Menu , choose History, and then Clear Recent History….
Select how much history you want to clear:
Click the drop-down menu next to Time range to clear to choose how much of your history Firefox will clear.
History.
Next, click the arrow next to Details to select exactly what information will get cleared. Your choices are described in the What things are included in my history?
Finally, click the Clear Now button. The window will close and the items you've selected will be cleared.

If using "internet explorer" then use the following procedure:
In Internet Explorer for the desktop, click the Tools button Tools button, point to Safety, then click Delete browsing history.
Select the types of data or files you want to remove from your PC then click Delete.

Note

If you want Internet Explorer to delete your browsing history every time you close it, tick the Delete browsing history on exit checkbox before you click Delete.
Note:

If you want Internet Explorer to delete your browsing history every time you close it, tick the Delete browsing history on exit checkbox before you click Delete.

Hi Catherine,

If you're using Chrome:

Clear your download history You can delete all, or some, of your download history. Don't worry, this won't erase your actual downloaded files. It just cleans up your Downloads page.

Remove items from your download history

1. In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu .
2. Select Downloads.
3. For each item you want to delete, click Remove from list.

You can also use the Ctrl+J (Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS) and ?-Shift-J (Mac) to quickly open the Downloads page.

Clear your download history from a longer period of time

1. In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu .
2. Click History and recent tabs > History.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. Uncheck every box but "Download history." It should already be checked for you. Learn more about other types of browsing data you can delete.
5. At the top, use the drop-down menu to select the amount of download history you want to delete.
6. Click Clear browsing data.

Try deleting your browser Cookie.
Internet Explorer:

• On the General tab, click Delete under Browsing History in the Internet Properties dialog box. ...
• In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click Delete Cookies.

Firefox:
Click the menu button , choose History, and then Clear Recent History....

1. Set Time range to clear to Everything.
2. Click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.
3. Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
4. Click Clear Now to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.

If you mean the eight thumbnails that show up under the search input box, type "chrome://history" (without the quotes) in the address bar, and you'll get to the Chrome history page where you can either clear your entire history, or select individual URLs to remove. The checkbox for selecting which items to remove, appears when you hover your mouse over the item.

If want to see what's been viewed on a computer or if you want to find a website that you visited, but can't quite remember the name of, you'll need to check your computer's history and cookies folders.

These are where the information about a computer user's Internet whereabouts are kept.
Some people say these folders contain the user's "footprints."

The footprints aren't hard to find. All it takes is a few mouse clicks and you're there.
Open your Web browser and click on the "Favorites, Feeds and History" tab. Internet Explorer's tab is indicated by a yellow star.


Click on the "History" tab. There should be a list of items arranged either by "Date," "Site," "Most Visited" or "Visited Today."

Click on each of these items to see what's been viewed on the computer.


If the history has been deleted, click on "Tools" and a drop-down menu will appear.
Click on "Internet Options."

On the "Internet Options" screen, click on "Settings" under "Browsing history."


Click on "View files" to display the cookies on the computer.

Cookies are pieces of information from websites that a computer saves to make loading the information faster. You can click on these items to see what they are.

To delete all browsing history in Firefox:
1. Click on Firefox drop-down menu at the top-left corner of the browser.
2. Move your cursor to History >
3. Click on Clear Recent history...
4. Select the time range to be Everything
5. Select the things you want to clear (if all - check all checkboxes). This is viewable by clicking on Details.
6. Click on Clear Now.
If you need any help you may contact me or view this page: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history
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i don't understand your problem . recent address in internet explorer address bar or any other like "reconet document" in start > documents .
if your problem in i.e. address bar then plz tell me how did you remove this. did you remove from registry also.
if not plz remove the registry entery also .
thanks
bye