How-To Guides: Viewing Internet Explorer's History Files
It happens to all users. It happens. You visit a website and later you realize you could really use the information that site provides but you cannot remember its name or address. Well, Internet Explorer may remember. Internet Explorer tracks each web site that you visit and maintains a History record for three weeks. You can browse that record and quickly return to a site from History. You can locate sites by date visited or frequency of site visitations. Follow these five steps.
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the History icon 
and a list of your previously visited sites will display in a panel on the left side of the screen.
3. If you do not see the sites for the week you want, go to View and click on the drop down arrow and select one of the following:
- By date
- By site
- By most visited today
- By order visited today
4. You can also click on Search to search by key words, such as “themes”, “fisher-price”, “abc”.
5. When you are through browsing through the history panel, click on the X to close it.
[Posted on May 30, 2006]
