Using the Handy History List

You saw earlier (in “Tips and Techniques for Better Web Surfing”) how you can click the Back and Forward buttons to follow your own footsteps on the World Wide Web. However, Internet Explorer wipes those lists clean when you exit the program. What do you do when you want to revisit a site from a previous session? Happily, Internet Explorer keeps track of the addresses of all the pages you perused for the last 20 days.

The names and addresses of these pages are stored in the History list, and you can view it by clicking the Favorites Center button and then clicking History (alternatively, you can press Ctrl+H). To bring a site into view, follow these steps:

1. Click the day or week you want to work with. Internet Explorer ...

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