It is easy to clear all the
tracks of internet activities, just with a click of mouse, and you may never
know, what sites your children were visiting behind your back. But now, you can
prevent this by disabling the Delete History button.
- To do this, press Windows + R key, to open run command, and type GPEDIT.MSC.
- Navigate to Administrative Templates under Computer Configuration.
- Under Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click Internet Explorer.
- Expand Internet Explorer, and move to Delete Browsing History.
- From right-side pane, double-click on "Prevent Access to Delete Browsing History" and enable this policy. Apply the changes.
Now, you can easily track which
website has been visited, because they were no longer be able to Delete the
browsing history data.
Keep in mind that, you must close
and reopen Internet Explorer, for settings to take effect.
There is still one more glitch in
the settings. If you access History bar, from view menu, you can see that, the
users are still able to delete a particular site from the history list. To
prevent this, you need to enable one more policy from GPEDIT.
- Navigate to Delete Browsing History as mentioned earlier.
- Double-click on, “Disable Configure History” and enable this policy as well.
This setting will remove
the delete option from the context menu, when a user right-click on history
list.
But if your children are smart
enough, then they can use In-Private Browsing option from Tools menu, and you
may never know, what sites they had visited, because in-private browsing data
will not be included in the history.
To prevent them accessing
in-private browsing option, open GPEDIT again, and configure one more policy
for Internet Explorer.
- Under Internet Explorer settings, click on Privacy, double-click on Turn Off In-Private browsing, and enable this policy as well.
Now, they will no longer be able
to access in-private browsing option either from tools menu, or through
keyboard shortcut.
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