Hide your tracks

Hide This Site button - What is this?

If you click on this button it will immediately take you away from the Karma Nirvana site to Google's website. If you are using a computer in a public place, or somewhere that someone might see what website you are visiting, you can use this button to hide what you are doing quickly.

Keep your visits to the Karma Nirvana website private.

Calling Karma Nirvana's helpline is confidential. If you also want to keep your visits to Karma Nirvana's website confidential, you can follow the steps below or follow the steps described by clicking the following link  http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm .

When you visit webpages, their addresses are stored in temporary folders on your computer's hard drive. If people want to see which websites you've been to, all they need to do is look at the files in these folders. To keep them from being able to do this, you will need to:

• delete all Temporary Internet files from your computer
• delete all the Links in your history folder.
• Don't worry - deleting these files and links isn't difficult. Here's what you need to do:

Internet Explorer 7 & Internet Explorer 6

When prompted place a check in: "Delete all offline content", click OK. This removes the junk files such as downloaded files, zero byte files created by Outlook Express and many other hidden files that reside in your cache.

Note: the hidden desktop.ini actually controls what is viewed in the cache folders.
In other words ... when you go to Internet Options | General tab - Settings button | View Files (IE 6)
 
Or if you are using IE7 click Delete Browsing History

Most of the above mentioned (junk) files are actually hidden from view. 

Internet Explorer 8

1. There are several new options in Internet Explorer 8 ... including the "Delete browsing history on exit"
2. Next click the Delete button and select the desired options (right image)

I would also recommend for broadband users to:
"Empty Temporary Files folder when browser is closed".

This option is located on the Advanced tab ... Security

One of the biggest reasons is in the event you have any possible malicious files there they are flushed automatically. Another is most Antivirus programs will try to "clean" any detected file that are discovered there ... however the browser cache is locked by Windows and prevents most AV programs access.

Besides there is no reason to "clean" files in the cache ...

Safari (often used on Apple Macs)

Resetting Safari clears the history, empties the cache, clears the Downloads window, and removes all cookies. It also removes any saved user names and passwords or other AutoFill data and clears Google/Yahoo search entries.

To do this

1. Go to the Safari menu at top left hand screen.
2. Choose Reset Safari, and click Reset.