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Prevent users from deleting IE History

by Steve Wiseman on April 23, 2010 · 1 comment

in IE,IE 7,IE 8,Tips,Tools,Utility,Windows


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I got a question this week from a reader:

Steve, we have a locked down environment and I have just about everything set the way I want it, but I still need to find a way of keeping users from deleting their Internet Explorer history. Sometimes we need to do a review of their computer if they get infected with a Virus, or Spyware. Any way to easily do this?

There is a way to do this, but I will start out by saying that a determined user will always find a way around it – either by using an alternative browser, or finding the cached files on their hard drive.

The first way is to dig into the registry. Create a key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under this path:

Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel

Once you have created the key, create a dword value under it named:

DisableDeleteBrowsingHistory

Disable Delete Browsing History Registry Entry

To disable, set it to 1. To enable set it back to zero.

We have also added this to Network Administrator:

Disable Delete Browsing History Network Administrator

It is a free download (For up to 3 computers at a time) from here:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/NetworkAdministrator.exe

Much easier than tinkering with the registry.

Back to Internet Explorer – Lets look at how it changes IE. Before we made our change, the security menu had the delete browsing history option:

Disable Delete Browsing History Before

Right after the registry key was created and set (Restart of IE required), it is gone:

Disable Delete Browsing History After

So there you go. A simple way to prevent users from deleting their browse history – not perfect, but it can work well in most situations.

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1 john February 22, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Still not work, may need register key to activate it.

regards john

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