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Summary: Your internet browser's history function is where you can retrieve old websites and places visited.

How do I retrieve old places visited and websites?

That would be your browser's history function. In most browsers, like Internet Explorer, typing CTRL+H will bring up a pane to the left listing sites you've visited in recent days.

The history is only kept so long, and "so long" is configurable in your internet options.

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35 Comments

i need to find all my internet searches i have ever made is this possible and how

Posted by: paul at September 29, 2008 3:56 PM

i want to find out what times some websites were visited on my past history.and how long the websites stayed open

Posted by: curious at October 11, 2008 4:30 PM

Please please help me retrieve my internet history. For some reason, whenever I press CTRL+H, the history list comes up but there is nothing on it! I desperately need to find out what website I have been on from last month or else I will fail! >

Posted by: Lou-chan at November 7, 2008 12:08 PM

how do i check wot times some web sites was visted

Posted by: clare at November 21, 2008 1:41 PM

how do I retrieve pages visted from the site if there were deleted out?

Posted by: Sonia Quintana at December 1, 2008 2:33 PM

hi,can someone check on the websites or check if i sign into my msn messenger even if i deleted the history from my computer? or can they atleast check and see if i signed into my messenger for the day?

thx alot

Posted by: tash at March 20, 2009 5:21 AM

is it possible to copy the browser history from my old computer (XP SP3) to my new computer (Vista Ultimate 64 bit?

Posted by: deon harmse at March 29, 2009 2:42 PM

how do I retrieve pages visted from the site if there were deleted out? I use internet explorer..windows vista.

Posted by: nona at May 17, 2009 7:01 PM

how do i find out what times past sites were visited?

Posted by: leo at June 3, 2009 1:58 PM

how do i find out items search on with google and then history deleted.?????????

Posted by: sandy at August 18, 2009 11:21 AM

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