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History: Erasing Your Tracks

The most visible tracks you leave when you surf the web are on the History
list. It’s a menu, right there for anyone to see, that lists every website

you’ve visited recently. In the Edge browser, you can view the History list

by choosing and then the tab. (Or just press Ctrl+H.)

Some people find that record-keeping unnerving. So:

To delete just one particularly incriminating History listing,
click the to its right.

To delete your entire history from one day (or week), click the

to its right.

Actually, you can delete any of the history “folders” here—like
Yesterday, Last Week, or Older—the same way.

To erase the entire History menu, hit “Clear history” at the top.

This is good information to know; after all, you might be nominated to the
Supreme Court someday.

The Pop-Up Blocker

The world’s smarmiest advertisers inundate us with pop-up and pop-under
ads: nasty little windows that appear in front of the browser window or,

worse, behind it, waiting to jump out the moment you close your browser
window. They’re often deceptive, masquerading as error messages or dialog
boxes…and they’ll do absolutely anything to get you to click inside them.

Pop-ups are more than just annoying; they’re also potentially dangerous.

They’re a favorite trick that hackers use to deposit spyware on your PC.