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Ie 7 - clear my tracks

A feature of ie7 announced on the ie blog is a new improved way of clearing your browsing history called ‘Delete Browsing History’. At the moment this process can take a while and hog your pc resources, this will be improved in ie7 by showing a cancellable dialog box showing the progress and will run in the background.

Why would you want to do this ? the ie blog has this to say :

So you’re trying to buy a gift for your loved one and you know how important it is to keep this mission secret. You’re aware of every site you visit but your machine is aware of even more; the stuff you type, the information you read, even the cookies requested by the site where you eventually buy the gift. You realize how important it is that your loved one never gets hold of any of this information. So you do what we all would, you try and cover your tracks. Now back in IE6, you would have to spend a lot of time looking through various places on your computer to get rid of all the relevant information and possibly still miss some critical information. Now with the ‘Delete Browsing History’ feature, we are giving every person the ability to clear all their browsing information from one location with a click of a button and, the peace of mind that the job was done right.

Allvistaworld thinks this is very valiant, and wouldnt like to suggest other types of website you may not wish your loved one to see