Hi! Can someone please help me? I have an HP Computer and I can’t get into my computer’s memory to clean out the memory and what I have downloaded. I want to keep my passwords and sites I have in favorites.
It seems to me that you are trying to delete your web browsing history and downloads from either Firefox or Internet Explorer while keeping your favorites. This is an easy process, no matter what browser you are using, although the methods are slightly different.
Clearing Out Internet Explorer
If you are using Internet Explorer, most of what you want to access is located on the toolbar. If you want to delete your browsing history so that other people can’t log onto your computer and see where you’ve been or what you’ve been doing:
- 1. Open up the Internet Explorer browser.
- 2. Click on Tools on the toolbar and then click on Internet Options.
- 3. Choose the General tab and find “Browsing History”.
- 4. Click on the button beside Browsing History to delete everything from the system.
If you want to clean out your temporary Internet files cache, the process is similar:
- 1. Open up Internet Explorer.
- 2. Choose Tools and then choose Internet Options.
- 3. On the General tab, find Temporary Internet Files and click to delete them.
In this same section of the Tools option, you can choose to delete or keep everything from temporary files, passwords, web form information, tracking cookies and history. Clicking on the button next to the item will allow the system to delete it, while leaving it blank will allow the system to keep the information intact. All of these shouldn’t affect your favorites list at all.
Clearing Out Firefox
The easy way to clean out your downloads in Firefox, is to choose Tools on the toolbar and then click on Downloads. This will bring up the Downloads box and will show everything that has been downloaded onto your computer and placed in the Downloads folder. Click on the “Clear List” button to delete all of these downloads, or delete them one by one. Make sure that anything you have downloaded and want to save has been saved in a different file.
To clear your browsing history in Firefox, follow these steps:
- 1. Open Firefox and click on Tools on the toolbar.
- 2. Click on Options and then choose Privacy.
- 3. In the History box, choose “Clear your recent history”. You can choose a time frame to clear the history ranging from one hour to the entire history file.
Once you have found out how to navigate the browser’s toolbar, you will find all of this information at your fingertips.
