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Cache
Browser saves web pages, images from visited Web sites
into your hard drive whether you click on them or not,
so that next time when you visit you won't have to
re-download the image. But this means that many
megabytes of data of all types get saved to you hard
drive. Anyone who can use your computer can tell where
you have been browsing on the web. Erases these files to
avoid others determining the pages you have been
recently viewing.
Cookies
Web sites send small text files to your browser to keep
track of your on-line sessions. They are particularly
useful when you want a Web site to auto-sign you into a
registration process. However web sites also use cookies
to track you through the site.
Location
Bar History
The Location Bar History is the list of recently visited
URL (web-sites) that appears in the address bar of
Internet Explorer. Therefore, anyone else can see where
you've been and what you've done.
Autocomplete
Memory
Internet Explorer can store a record of almost
everything that you typed into any web site form. Form
data can be things such as all the keywords you have
ever typed into a search engine and personal information
such as your name and address.
Index.dat
The Index.dat can not delete manually. Even if you clean
up your cache, cookies, and history from within the
Internet Explorer browser regularly, the index.dat files
will continue to store information about what web sites
you have visited and what cookies have been saved, this
also grows to enormous size and slows your computer
down.
IE
Plug-Ins
The IE Plug-Ins use to provide some functions that the
browser can not provide, for example, some chat room and
games may use plug-ins to accomplish special functions.
Recent
Documents
Lists the last 15 document files that you have accessed,
allowing any of these documents to be reopened simply by
clicking on the name of the document.
Windows
Search History
Windows saves the files, text and computers you have
ever searched.
Start
Menu Run History
Windows stores the programs you ran in the start menu
run text box.
Open/Save
History
Windows records you opened and saved files list in
registry.
Windows
Temporary Files Directory
Windows saves temp files to this folder, it will take a
large amount of disk space if you don't clean it
regularly, and it also tracks what you have done on your
PC.
MediaPlayer
Playlist
Mediaplayer records the recent played Internet location,
video and sound files in the registry.
And
much more...
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