How to Restore Browsing History

If you work on a computer then you have most certainly dealt with several unfortunate events and occasions, such as losing your browsing history without expecting it or even wanting it. Internet Explorer builds up the history of the websites you have most recently visited. Once in a while it clears out the browsing history, either due to scheduled maintenance or due to a manual command. What happens though if you accidentally cleared the history out without wanting to? Is there any chance to undelete it? As always there are numerous ways to do things when it comes to Windows, however you can find here how to restore browsing history in a few steps.

The easiest way to do it is to use the Restore feature. Every now and then Windows take some sort of snapshot of the pc, which are also known as restore points. They help the user set the system back if something goes wrong with an installation or configuration, or if he accidentally erases something from the system. If you have a comprehensive amount of restore points in your system you can simply run Windows restore and 'return' to the version of system that was running before clearing out the history. Doing this you will get your IE browsing history back within seconds.

If you have changed any settings then you might have prevented the restore points from detecting the changes in your system. In this case you need to locate the index.dat files in your system. These are small files used by Internet Explorer so as to track down your browsing history.

If you try to open these files in Notepad you will see the websites you visited; or you can simply download software that reads index.dat files and have your browsing history back in no time.