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Originally Posted by HWD
On my company issued computer, I went into IE to delete my browsing history and the button for deleting history is grayed out...they disabled the button so I can't delete my browser history. Anyone know how to re-enable that button? No, I ain't looking at porn but keeping all that crap slows the computer. Any ideas on how re-enable?
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re-enabling that history button is a registry hack, and unless you're extremely confident in your pc skills i wouldn't recommend you touching it. but if you are feeling brave, a
link to read. re-enable is change the value from 1 to 0. if your mistaken and change the wrong registry value, and believe me it can be easy to do, you can hose the whole system.
you've been warned.
before you use crapcleaner, view what history is saved.
go to start
control panel
folder options
view tab
scroll to files and folders
select hidden files
uncheck "hide protected files"
yes and accept and close
then
start
my computer
local disk C:
documents and settings, your name
local settings, history
i suspect though that your problem with "keeping all that crap" isn't with the history saved, but a bunch of adware and spyware on your system.
once you run crapcleaner, then i suggest you install and run
adaware free, and
spybot . once you run both of those and delete all that they find, your system should speed up. another great program that runs in the background for protection is
spywareblaster
as cdswan has stated those files, images, etc will still be on the machine, only a shredding program can wipe them.