Cover your tracks on line

To pick certain websites and delete them from your history:

1. Click on the ‘hub’ icon in the top right-hand corner. It looks like 3 lines.
2. Click on the history icon. This looks like a clock.
3. Hover over the pages you want to delete and click the ‘x’ on the right-hand side.

To delete all your history and saved passwords:

1. 1. Click on the ‘more’ icon in the top right-hand corner. It looks like 3 lines.
   2. Click settings.
   3. Under “Clear browsing data” click “Choose what to clear.”
   4. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Cached data and files, Passwords, Form data and Download History.
   5. Click clear.

The steps below are for a desktop browser and some touch devices. Mobile phones and some devices may be different.

Internet Explorer 11:

1. Click the Tools button in the top right of the screen (it looks like a wheel).
2. Choose Safety, then click Delete browsing history.
3. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Download History, Form data, Passwords, and Filtering data.
4. Click on Delete.

To pick certain websites and delete them from your history:

1. Tap or click the Favourites button (it looks like a star). This will bring up a drop-down menu.
2. Choose the History tab and click. Now you can choose how you want to view your history. You can view sites by date, by most visited and by site
3. Right-click (or press and hold) on a site from any of these lists, then click (or tap) ‘Delete’. This will delete the site from your history.

Internet Explorer 10

1. Move your mouse to the right-hand side of the page to bring up a side panel. Click on the ‘Settings’ icon (it looks like a wheel shape) and click on ‘Internet Options’.
2. Go to the ‘Safety’ menu and select ‘Delete’.

Internet Explorer 9

1. Click on the ‘gear’ icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen. It looks like a little wheel. Then click on Internet Options.
2. This will make a box pop up, that will already be open on a section called General.
3. In this section, scroll to Browser History and then click the Delete button.
4. Tick each box: Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Download History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering data.
5. Un-tick the ‘Preserve Favourites website data’.
6. Click Delete to clear everything.

Internet Explorer 7 and 8

1. Go to the menu bar at the top of the page. Click on the Tools menu and select Internet Options. This will make a box pop up , that will already be open on a section called General.
2. In this section, scroll to Browser History and click the Delete button.
3. You can select and delete each section: Temporary internet files; Cookies, History; Form data and Passwords.
4. You can also just select the ‘Delete all’ button at the bottom to clear everything.

Internet Explorer 6
If you use Internet Explorer 6, go to the menu bar at the top of the page.

1. Click on Tools.
2. Go to the bottom of the dropdown menu and click on Internet Options. This will open a box with the names of several different sections along the top. You will already be in the section called General.
3. In the middle of this box is a section called ‘Temporary Internet Files’. Click on the button marked ‘Delete files’.
4. When the box pops up, tick the ‘Delete all offline content’ box and then click OK.
5. When your computer finishes deleting your temporary internet files, you will be back in the General Internet Options box.
6. Look at the section below called History. Here you can click on the ‘Clear History’ button.
7. A pop-up box will ask you if you want to delete all items in your history folder. Click ‘Yes’.
8. Click ‘OK’ to close the Internet Options box.