Safety Notice

If you are worried that someone else can find out about the websites you have visited then read the following steps below.

IMPORTANT

Please note that the information below may not completely hide your tracks. If at all possible try and use a computer at a friend’s house, at work or using a computer at your local library.

Deleting Cookies, Files and Internet History

The details below will explain how to delete all of your history, however this may arouse suspicion as all of the history will be deleted. Further down below are some screen shots that will show you how to delete the individual history pages. For example just delete the entry for SODA.

Internet Explorer 6.0

• Click the Tools drop down menu and select Internet Options
• On the General tab under Temporary Internet Files:
• Click Delete Cookies
• Click Delete Files
• Under History click Delete History
• On the Content tab under Personal Information click AutoComplete
• Click Clear Forms and then click OK
• Click OK again to close Internet Options and save your changes

Delete single page history Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

If you are using IE6 then click on the history icon indicated in the image below. This will display the history of the pages visited. Expand the history until you find the website history you want to delete and then right click on that page to delete. As above remember to close the history side panel by clicking on the history icon in the toolbar or on the X button in the history side panel.

Internet Explorer 7.0

• Click Tools drop down menu and select Internet Options
• Under Browsing History click Delete
• Delete browsing history by clicking each delete button as required or click the Delete All button
• Click Close and then Click OK to confirm the deletion

Alternatively

• Click the Tools drop down menu and select Delete Browsing History
• Click each delete button in turn as required or click Delete All
• Click Close to confirm

Delete single page history Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7)

To remove the single page history you will need to click on the favourites tab and then on the history tab in IE7. Expand the history until you find the website history you want to delete and then right click on that page to delete (see image below).

NOTE: Remember to click back on the favourite’sbutton to turn it back to normal, unless the history tab was already being displayed.

Internet Explorer 8.0

• If the Menu bar at the top of the browser isn’t visible either press the “ALT” key on your keyboard to make it appear or, right click in an open space near the top of the browser (gray area) and click view menu bar.
• Click Tools drop down menu and select Internet Options
• Under Browsing History click Delete
• Delete browsing history by clicking each delete button as required or click the Delete All button
• Click Close and then Click OK to confirm the deletion

Alternatively

• Click the Tools drop down menu and select Delete Browsing History
• Click each delete button in turn as required or click Delete All
• Click Close to confirm

This can all also be done if the Star is appearing in the browser window. Click on it to get the menu pop out. Find the correct folder set for the website and delete the entire folder or a single page. Images below for examples.

Private mode can be accessed by the cog in the top right then hovering over safety and click InPrivate browsing.

There two ways to get to the history panel in IE9, can either get to it by pressing crtl+h or going to the cog under the close button in the top right > then choosing internet options > privacy then clear sites.

Also if the check box next to it is unticked, the one that says, Don’t allow sites to find my physical location, tick it, this stops websites that request your location to not get it.

Once the history panel is open find the correct folder for SODA redcar and either delete the entire folder, or if you want to delete single pages, look through the list and find them.

Mozilla Firefox / Netscape

To use private mode in FireFox just press crtl+shift+p to enter private mode.

• Click the Tools drop down menu and select Options
• Click on the Privacy option
• Under Private Data click Clear Now
• Place a tick in all the options available and click Clear Private Data Now
• Click OK to confirm

Alternatively select ctrl+shift+delete on your keyboard, tick all the items available and click Clear Private Data Now.

Delete single page history FireFox

In FireFox click on the history menu link at the top of the browser and then Show All History. See Below.

A pop box will appear (see image below) right click on the website you want to delete and then select the delete option.

Opera

• Click the Tools drop down menu and select Preferences
• Click the Advanced tab and select History on the left hand menu
• Click the Clear and Empty Now buttons
• Select Cookies from the left hand menu
• Click Manage cookies
• Select any entries on the list you want to delete and click Delete
• Click Close when you have finished deleting all the entries you want to
• Click OK to close Preferences

Google Chrome

To Enter incognito mode click the spanner in the top right corner and the third option down will be to use the private mode version of the web browser.

With Google Chrome you want to either press crtl+h again or go to the spanner in the top right, click on it then select history.

When the new tab opens up, click edit items on the right hand side.  The page will reload with check boxes down the side of all the places you have visited. if you want to delete single pages, just select the pages you want via the tick boxes.

Then at top under history there will be a remove selected items button, click that and it will remove the websites you have selected. Alternatively you can just click clear all browsing data to get rid of everything.

The images below provide an alternative but longer way to accomplish this.