How can you restart your computer to an earlier date?

Question

I need to find out what's been downloaded and what's been visited on my computer. Like if someone has been on p**n or whatever, but how do you do that if someone has done disk clean up's and deleted the web history and then deleted it from the recycle bin. So is there a way i can pull that up? my computer is a dell, dimension 3000, microsoft window's xp.

Answer 1

Well I'm just focusing on the part which says deleted the recycle bin.. Here is something that should help you. beware though, if you have a large HDD say 60GB or more, & lots of free space, it could take a LOT of time http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/10/avira...

On the other hand if space is less, then Windows Swap file would have written over most of the old data anyways. You seem to have an old friend /hack in your computer. I'd recommend changing the Admin & user password immediately. That is your first line of defense.

Answer 2

well you have two options.

A. You can do a system restore (Start>All programs>Accessories>System tools> System restore then chose restore to an earlier point)

B. try recuva (http://www.recuva.com) it's a data recovery tool and can usually find files like web cookies if they have been deleted recently

Answer 3

HISTORY FILE LOCATIONS:

start--control panel--internet options--general--history

clear and set to 0 days to keep

temp files:clear all

cookies: clear all

start--my computer [ or just Computer for Vista users ]--local disk drive (c) :

temp folder

windows:

prefetch folder

temp folder [ there ARE two of them ! ]

Firefox 3.0+:

tools--options--privacy tab--cookies: show cookies

XP Home:

start--my computer--local disk drive (c)--documents & settings--

your username--cookies,highlight and delete

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