You know how in your address bar as you type something in sometimes other urls that begin the same come up? For example you start to type in www.blah.com/ and then www.blah.com/blah shows up under the bar...

Well how long do those stay there? If somebody visited a page months or more ago would it still pop up?

You see I was at my boyfriends and xanga porn adresses showed up. I didn't even know there was such a thing. But he said that he used to a while ago and has since matured and gotten over it. But wouldn't it mean they were recent if they showed up

Hahah you looked at porn and your worried about whether it will show up on the address bar or not ? Lol Jkeedin`.

Well, my brother does this thing to the computer where it gets rid of all the hisyory in the computer and its like a fresh start. Im not sure how he does it.

Eh ok well actually you're a little close. But that advice doesn't realyl help me... you see I was at my boyfriends and xanga porn adresses showed up. I didn't even know there was such a thing. But he said that he used to a while ago and has since matured and gotten over it. But wouldn't it mean they were recent if they showed up?

If you use internet explorer, all you have to do is right click the program, like on the desktop, and click properties, then click the delete history and cookies.

^mmph. beeeat me. but you don't have to delete cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer..
Right click Internet Explorer >> Options / Properties >> click the 'Clear History' button

I think it automatically goes away after 30 days? I'm not sure..

I DON'T WANT TO DELETE HISTORY

well, then you're screwed.

It depends on the browser settings. You get to choose how long the history remains on your computer.

yeah it's recent, it usually deletes itself after a month or so

It depends on how long he keeps his history setting. But I would guess that he is still lookig at it. Whats the deal with girls and porn?

its not nessesarily recent. you can choose how long it should remain up, so maybe your bf had just set it to a really high amount of days

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you can delete only certain sites from your history if you bring up the history panel in IE.

yea what they said. also you can set how many days you want it there, mines set on 10

go to tools > internet options > then under the "general" tab, click "clear history" > press "yes"

you can also change the number of days to whatever you want and it'll automatically delete the history after x amount of days.

Wouldn't history also slow down your computer?

Not really. They're just static data files stored on the hard drive.