ok, you know how when you view history of all the sites you have visited and their organized into little folders such as (2 days ago, i week ago) i was wondering if it was possible to view the exact time and date the page was visited...if so how?
Open My Computer, right-click a white area and select View->Details, and then browse to: c:\"Documents and Settings"\{your logon name}\"Local Settings"\temp\history\history.ie5 -and- c:\"Documents and Settings"\{your logon name}\"Local Settings"\temp\"Temporary Internet Files"\Content.ie5 I can't stress enough, though - DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO BROWSE THE WEB. It's unbelievably insecure. Use something else. Firefox and Opera can natively list history by date and other parameters directly from the menus, without going through all this.
@Dunker ... Thanks for the tip about explorer; I was unaware of that but it only makes sense given the pervasive nature of its use. I've been wanting to try Firefox since Ireland told me some things about it a coule of weeks ago; I guess this is the perfect opportunity.
Thanks Ireland and Dunker. Fine Asian merchandise indeed ... already anticipating a problem with the horizontal hold. (LOL, is there any such thing as a horizontal hold anymore?)
@Ireland and Dunker: I've downloaded the setup to my desktop. I'm a bit concerned about the security stuff. I've got Norton Internet Security running (which I may not renew when the time comes as I'm told there are freebies just as good if not better.) So too, Service Pac 2 has security stuff too which I have disabled and Norton enabled. Any suggestions regarding the security do-dads in firefox? As always, thanks for the help and advice....Gerry
Here's my standard Firefox checklist. It actually applies to all browsers though it's geared towards Firefox. When you install Firefox, select Custom installation and uncheck Quality Feedback Agent. If you already installed it, it's called Talkback.exe and can simply be deleted. It has caused stability problems ever since Netscape 2.0. It should be at C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\talkback.exe For security, I recommend disabling Java (Options->Content->Enable Java) unless you are certain you need Java support and you keep it up-to-date, as security holes are being found in Java all the time. Also, under the Advanced->Security tab, uncheck SSL 2.0, which has severe security flaws. I recommend checking all other internet programs like email programs and disabling SSL 2.0 and Java support as well. If you're extra-security consicious, enter 'about:config' into the address bar and look for XPInstall.enabled and double-click to set to FALSE. You might want to check out some of Firefox' extensions at addons.mozilla.com before disabling this. XPInstall allows plugins to be manually downloaded and installed directly through FF, but has been a source of security problems. You can re-enable it as necessary to install other addons anytime you want, but I recommend running with it disabled. That's it for basic security but while you're in about:config, there's a performance tweak you can make. It hasn't helped me, but a lot of folks swear by it. Find network.http.pipelining and double-click to set this to TRUE, set network.http.pipelining.requests and set this to 9 and set network.http.proxy.pipelining to TRUE as well. If you want GREAT security/privacy protection, Firefox can do that better than any other browser, even Opera. Go into Tools->Options->Privacy and look at the various tabs. Set History to 0 days, Saved Forms to disabled (unchecked), Passwords also unchecked, Download History to When Firefox Exits, under Cookies, Keep Cookies should be set to Until I Close Firefox and finally set the Cache under the cache tab to 10 mb, maybe 5. Then click Settings at the bottom right and select everything but Saved Passwords and Ask me before Clearing Private Data. Now, your history, cookies, cache/web bugs, etc. all get deleted every time you close FF without having to futz around with menus. If you need to keep certain cookies permanently e.g. banking sites, webmail logins, etc. you can just go under Cookies->Exceptions and enter the site name (usually you don't need to enter prefixes like www, just the domain name) and click Allow. One last tweak, which is really only for hardcore privacy fans, is to download a cookie blocking file from http://www.geocities.com/yosponge/hostperm.txt. You need to rename this to hostperm.1 and copy it to wherever your Firefox profile is (usually c:\documents and settings\{Windows user name}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{some random letters and numbers}\. This will overwrite any stored cookies you have though.
i have WLAN and i go to C:>documents and settings>*my user account*> then theres no "local setting" options, only -cookies -desktop -favorites -incomplete -my documents -shared -stert menu -user data -ntuser
It's a hidden directory. If you're in Windows Explorer a.k.a. My Computer, click Tools->Folder Options->View and check the radio button next to "Show hidden files and folders".
