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

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How do I retrieve old places visited and websites?

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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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Article C2107 - July 9, 2004

Leo Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed. After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.

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

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

How do I tract and recover browser history over two years old from my computer. It is a windows xp exploer

Posted by: amanda at March 22, 2010 2:40 PM

i need to find out what time and date items in my browser was visited

Posted by: gavin at June 6, 2010 11:48 AM

hi im wandering how to look at deleted browser history i tried doing system restore but isnt helping i just wanted to see what my husband has been looking at on the computer

System restore only restores a small amount of your system (one of the reasons I dislike it so much - it does NOT "restore your system" in any complete sense). Basically you'd need to get file undelete utilities, look for prior copies of the history file(s), HOPE that they haven't been overwritten by subsequent computer usage, and than understand the contents of those files. Difficult for the average computer user, but not terribly hard for experts and computer forensics people.
Leo
04-Aug-2011

Posted by: hannah at August 2, 2011 6:14 PM

If I viewed an internet page a few days ago but the content has been changed, is it possible to view the original content again?

Most often the answer is no. You can try visiting the internet archive's wayback machine, but it's hit and miss. http://archive.org
Leo
05-Aug-2011

Posted by: Sheila at August 4, 2011 4:22 PM
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