How do i check to see what my husband has been doing on the computer?

Question

how do you look to see what websites have been visited ect on the computer, or can you not do that....

Answer 1

I'm going to give your question a fair answer, because other people will probably be searching for it and it is important that everyone know the easy ways to check browser history (and husbands need to know about them too ;) )

But my conscience is making me point out that relationships are built on trust. Real trust, not "he'll never know" trust. You'll know, and he knows you.

In internet explorer, first and foremost, most people leave "inline autocomplete" on.

What that means is that if you type in the first few letters of a url, a little window will pop up underneath the address bar line with all the websites recently visited that start with what you typed.

So, the easiest and fastest way is usually to go to the address bar, and then type in the letter "a", and see which sites come up, then "b", "c", "d", etc

You can also hit ctrl and h at the same time in an internet explorer window to look at the whole history. That's something that can be disabled, though; most people forget about inline autocomplete

I wouldn't reccomend keyloggers, but people need to know they exist, here's one

http://www.refog.com/

and that'll keep track of everything your husband types in (including his passwords).

Your husband can tell if a keylogger is running by hitting ctrl+alt+esc (better than ctrl+alt+del to bring up the task manager, as a lot of keyloggers plan for that sequence), or hitting win+r and then typing in "msconfig" and looking at all the programs that run at startup. Since some keyloggers use valid process names, though, sometimes you have to look through the registry. If you see something that calls itself "mstask.exe" in one place and "klogger.exe" in another place, then get rid of it.

Finally, one foolproof way to find a keylogger is to look at the filesize of all running tasks, open up notepad, hit a few keys, look at the processes that increased in size, close notepad, open it again, and repeat a few dozen times, looking for a process that is getting bigger, and only getting bigger, when you hit keys.

Also, your husband can delete his history using the first tab in the "tools" menu under "internet options" in explorer

You might be able to undelete it if he deletes it; it's in C:\Documents and Settings\Hisname\Temporary Internet Files, and you can find a disk recovery tool somewhere. He can prevent you from being able to do that by writing random data to that part of the disk; he can look for a file shredding utility online.

If your relationship with your husband improves, it might do both of you a lot of good (and be a lot of fun) if you told him you wanted to learn more about how to check up on people online, and that you were going to be trying to check up on him and wanted him to try to find ways to prevent you from checking up on him, and to check up on you. As long as you both agreed ahead of time where the "bathroom door" is and where to not invade the other's privacy, you could both have a lot of fun and learn a lot.

Answer 2

go to internet options then find cookies and all the site visited will be named there for you. browsing history then settings then click view files. Hope this helps im using XP pro

Answer 3

Short, easy, technical answer: Check the browser history. Open up your internet browser (most likely Internet Explorer) and push Ctrl+H. That will pull up a list of sites visited for the past 20 or so days (the browser history).

Long, moral answer: First you should talk to him. Relationships are built on trust, and if you can't trust each other your relationship is not going to last long. At the very least, let him know what you're going to do and give him a chance to explain himself.