Privacy is an important factor for some users when it comes to computer usage specifically in situations where your computer is shared with other users. Windows by default, has a feature of automatically tracking your recently accessed files in your ‘My Recent Documents’ folder, while this is a very useful feature for most users of Windows Operating Systems, some users as mentioned above would prefer to turn this option off.
Setting this preference requires you to modify the registry. Make sure you read this post on how to backup and use the registry if you are not familiar with it.
I’ll explain how to make the change in a series of steps:
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Thats a goog tip! How do you delete the suggestions that come when you type your mail id in any mail account server. This is a problem when you use a public internet service. You check your mail and when somebody else uses the system they can find your id popping out as suggestion. Is there any method to delete those?
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in any mail service, when you are in a public computer, you can uncheck the ‘save settings’ (or something similar) box which won’t track your id and password, or it could also be your browser, in that case you should answer negatively when it requests to save your details.
Also, to be on the safe side once you are done, you can clear the private data of the browser before leaving.
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Thank you. I was able to find the clear private data thing in the tools menu; but still mail id’s pop up. By ‘Save settings box’, do you mean the box present in the mail’s page like ‘remember me on this computer’ in gmail? I never select that. Is there some save settings box in the browser also? Unable to find any if there is.
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yes i was referring to the generalized meaning of ‘remember me on this computer’, for the email id’s still remaining, i’m guessing you use firefox, in the clear private data you’ll have ‘saved form and search history’ which is what needs to be cleared to empty the email list, but it’s permanently checked so it’s surprising the email addresses are still there.
alternatively if you use shared computers often and own a pen drive/external hard drive, you might want to use the portable version of firefox, which means all your surfing data would be stored only on your external drive only.
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Hey yeah I was able to find it. ‘Saved Form and Search History’ is checked by default but that does not help clear email id’s. There’s another option, ‘Offline Website Data’ which is not checked and when that is marked, it does the work. Now I don’t have my mail id’s popping. Thank you for the help. Yes I use Firefox and never knew there was a portable version of it. Will come in handy.
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glad you figured it out, the portable version is really something you should be using on a shared computer, as it also lets you have all your bookmarks, addons and customization the way you want it only on your portable version.
if you have any other doubts feel free to drop a comment or mail.
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