Delete Internet Explorer Browsing History via command line
In the following tutorial, I'll show you how to quickly Delete Internet Explorer Browsing History via a command line. The cool part about deleting your browsing history via a command line, is that you can create simplex batch files to automate the entire process of clearing stored passwords, deleting cookies, deleting history and files stored by the Internet Explorer browser.
The following has been tested to work with Internet Explorer 7 and or 8:
How To Delete Internet Explorer Browsing History:
- Click Start -> Run, type cmd, then click Ok
- From the Command Window, type each of the following commands and press Enter:
To Delete Temporary Internet Files: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
To Delete Cookies: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2
To Delete History: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1
To Delete Form Data: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16
To Delete Passwords: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32
To Delete ALL: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255
To Delete Files and Settings Stored by addons: Type
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351